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(BINDINGS - FRENCH.)
Oeuvres Complettes de Montesquieu.
6 volumes.
Author portrait frontispiece in 3 vols., and folding map in vol. 1. Tall 8vo, contemporary
green straight-grain morocco, all edges gilt, spines, covers, edges, and turn-ins gilt; pink silk
moiré endpapers, bronze medallion portrait of the author inset to front cover of vol. 1,
bound by Simier (signed in gilt on spines); few soil marks and light surface impressions to
covers; scattered internal foxing.
AMPLY MARGINED
,
FINELY BOUND SET
.
Paris: Lefèvre, 1816
[600/900]
ITALIAN GIFT BOOK
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(BINDINGS - ITALIAN.)
Strenna Italiana anno XIX.
Illustrated; text leaves
with decorative borders. Large 8vo, original cream boards embossed with cameos on front
and back covers, including an 18th-century couple dancing and four ladies with fancy coif-
fures repeated on both covers, front cover with hand-colored central cameo decorated with
fabric, gilt and colors, of a girl holding a rose within single gilt rule, all edges gilt, faint
dampstaining to portion of
spine and one spot on front
cover; Paul Edward Chevalier
leather bookplate on front
flyleaf, some occasional mar-
ginal foxing to plates; housed
in cloth clamshell case.
Milano,Venezia eVerona:
Carpano, 1853
[1,200/1,800]
Nicely preserved copy of a
“strenna” gift book popular in
the mid-19th century. Elegantly
bound anthology that includes
Italian poetry and travel stories,
beautifully designed to appeal to
the fairer sex.
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