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SCUDÉRY (Georges de). Alaric, or Rome Vanquished. An Epic Poem. Paris: Augustin Courbé, 1656. 12mo, red morocco, triple gilt fillet framing the covers, decorated ribbed spine, gilt edges (H. Duru). [XLII (of XLIV)] + 380 + [XV] pp. A portrait of Christina of Sweden, to whom the work is dedicated, engraved by Pieter CLOUWET, and ten unsigned full-page engravings. From the libraries of the Chevalier de La Motte, with a handwritten bookplate on the flyleaf, and of the poet and politician Léon LAURENT-PICHAT (1823–1886), with a bookplate. Frontispiece title page (ã1) missing; old annotation in Latin at the bottom of the half-title page. “This edition, the most beautiful of all those ever published of *Alaric*, was printed by Foppens […] New title pages, dated 1656, were later substituted.” (Willems, 1973). COPY IN RED DURU MOROCCAN LEATHER.
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