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Jacques-Bénigne BOSSUET Discours sur l'histoire universelle

Jacques-Bénigne BOSSUET

Discours sur l'histoire universelle

L.Curmer, éditeur, Paris s.d. [circa 1842], 18x28cm, 2 volumes reliés.


New edition preceded by a literary notice by M. Tissot of the French Academy and illustrated with a frontispiece drawn by H. Rigaud and engraved by Pigeot, a page of fake title richly decorated and colored by hand and of ten off-text etchings by various artists.
Bindings in full purple shagreen, back with eight nerves adorned with double boxes and gilded nets, double nets and quadruple golden nets framing boards, contreplats and guards *, gilded lace framing contretrats, double golden nets highlighting the cuts, streaks gilded highlighting the headdresses, all golden slices.
Handwritten note dated September 8, 1842.
Some scratches on the boards, cuts rubbed, corners blunt, some foxinges, pages entirely scorched on the entire second volume.

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