Histoire de Louis XI [3 volumes]
by Duclos, Charles Pinot
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good -
- Seller
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Paris: Frères Guerin & Prault, Fils, 1745. Hardcover. Very Good -. 3 volumes ([6], xxxiv, [4], 458 p.; [4], 548 p.; [4], 476, [60] p.), v. 1 frontispiece (signed: "Et Jeaurat del. Et Fessard sculp."); 17 cm. Contemporary full polished calf; six spine compartments between raised bands. Gilt-tooled leather labels in second and third compartments with title and volume numbers. Gilt-tooled decoration in remaining spine compartments and on board edges. All page edges speckled red. Woodcut title vignettes, head-pieces, and tail-pieces. Sometimes attributed to the abbé Joachim Legrand, whose notes are said to have been used by Duclos (cf. Quérard, La France Littéraire). Includes index. Front fixed endpaper bears armorial bookplate with the motto: "Aedes Carthusianae in usum Carthusianorum" and an added label indicating that the books were donated by G.J. Allen, Carthusiani in 1880. In Very Good- Condition: slight loss of leather at head of spines; joints are cracked; spines are rubbed; pages are clean and tight.
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- Bookseller
- Classic Books and Ephemera (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002216
- Title
- Histoire de Louis XI [3 volumes]
- Author
- Duclos, Charles Pinot
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good -
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Frères Guerin & Prault, Fils
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1745
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography & Autobiography; European History;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania
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