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De Baecque et Associés

1044 - [PRÉVOST (Antoine François d'Exiles, Abbé)]. MEMOIRS AND ADVENTURES OF A MAN OF RANK WHO HAS WITHDRAWN FROM THE WORLD.

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€200 - 300

Sale fees

30%

[PRÉVOST (Antoine François d'Exiles, Abbé)]. MEMOIRS AND ADVENTURES OF A MAN OF RANK WHO HAS WITHDRAWN FROM THE WORLD. Paris, Veuve Delaulne, 1729, and Amsterdam, at the expense of the Company, 1731–33. 7 vols. in-12, brown calfskin, ornate ribbed spine (contemporary binding). Volumes 1 through 4 are dated 1729 and published by the same publisher; the last three volumes were published at the expense of the Company in Amsterdam (1731 for volumes 5 and 6, 1733 for volume 7). Volume VII contains THE ORIGINAL EDITION OF THE STORY OF CHEVALIER DES GRIEUX AND MANON LESCAUT. One title page and several margins have been restored. Damage to the bindings. (Tchemerzine V, 217–218) (Brunet IV, 867).

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Auction details

Books, Manuscripts, and Autographs
Tuesday, December 1
02:30 PM
3, impasse des Chevau-Légers
78000 Versailles, France

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De Baecque et Associés +33 1 58 40 82 92 versailles@debaecque.fr
On Drouot for more than 10 years avec More than 290,000 lots published

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