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[MAILLY (Louis de)]. Anecdote or Secret History of the Vestal Virgins. Paris, Cavelier, 1700. In-12, 234 pp., 3 ff., brown calfskin, decorated raised spine (contemporary binding). Rare first edition of this work on the Vestal Virgins. Small hole and tear on the spine, worn corners, marginal erasure on the title page. Handwritten Derouin-Delaunay bookplate. (Barbier, I, 178, and Quérard, V, 444, for the 1701 edition).
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