£130
Malta & Russia, Enlightenment Provenance. De Pipoulain-Delaunay (Abbé Pierre), Nouvelle méthode pour aprendre la langue latine [...], volumes I & II (of 4), bound as one, complete in themselves, sole edition, Paria: La Veuve Robinot, 1756-59, contemporary crimson morocco gilt, gilt turn-ins and dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, 8vo.
Provenance: 1) Jacques Laure le Tonnelier de Breteuil (1722/25-1785), usually called 'Le Bailli de Breteuil', diplomat and art collector, ambassador of the Order of Malta to the Holy See (1758-77) and then to Paris (1777). 2) Prince Dmitri Alekseyvich Gallitzin FRS (1728-1803), Russian ambassador to France (1762-1768, though resident in Paris from 1760), Enlightenment polymath, and Catherine the Great's agent, via whom she bough Diderot's library of 2,900 books in 1766. Given by him to 3) Jack Moore, presentation inscription dated 1773.
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