"[Antiquarian] Set of 10 volumes: - Lot 52

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"[Antiquarian] Set of 10 volumes: - Lot 52
"[Antiquarian] Set of 10 volumes: - Jonathan SWIFT. Gulliver’s Travels, translated by Desfontaines. New edition, revised, corrected, and illustrated with engravings. Paris, Year VII, 4 parts in one in-12 volume bound in full period sheepskin, smooth spine decorated with gilt fleurons, title labels, split joints. Illustrated with two unsigned, out-of-text engraved plates. - [Collective] Menippean Satire on the Virtue of the Catholicon of Spain; and on the Conduct of the Estates of Paris. To which is appended a Discourse on the Interpretation of the Word "Higuiero d’Infierno," and Who Is Its Author. Plus the Lament on the Death of the Donkey “Ligueur” of a Young Lady, who died during the Siege of Paris. At Regensburg, published by Mathias Kerner [Brussels, Foppens], 1664, in-12, bound in worn full sheepskin, decorated ribbed spine, title label, cracked joints. Copy with slightly short upper margin. Spherical watermark on the title page and one engraved plate (out of 3). Second edition by Foppens, without the errata on p. 8. - [LE TASSE] *Jerusalem Delivered*, translated into French verse by P.L.M. Baour-Lormian. Paris, Delaunay, 1819, 3 in-8 volumes bound in half-calf, with smooth, decorated spines. Portrait on the frontispiece and 3 separate engravings; some foxing. - CRAVEN (Elizabeth Berkeley). Letters from Milady Wortlay Montagute, Written During Her Travels in Various Parts of the World. New edition. Vienna, Gay, 1786, 2 parts in one volume, bound in half-basane, plain spine, title label. - Antoine HAMILTON. Memoirs of the Count of Grammont (and) Miscellaneous Works in Prose and Verse. Sl, 1749, 3 in-12 volumes bound in full root-tanned sheepskin, smooth spines, title labels missing. Vignette on title pages and engraved headbands. - GAUTRUCHE (Pierre). A New Poetic History for the Explanation of Fables and the Understanding of Poets, with the Moral Meaning of Each Story. New edition corrected and considerably expanded by Abbé de B*** [Bellegarde]. Paris, Legras, 1725, in-12 bound in full sheepskin. Frontispiece title page." Appraiser: Cabinet Valleriaux contact@valleriaux.com Please request condition reports: they are not included in the descriptions.
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