£65
European Literature - [Boccaccio (Giovanni)], Le Decameron de Jean Boccace, five-volume set, Londres [i.e. Paris]: Pierre Prault], 1757-1761, illustrated with engraved title-pages, full-page plates and vignettes by Hubert-François Gravelot (1699-1773), contemporary Spanish calf gilt (faults, worn, chipped, rubbed, losses), all-edges gilt, marbled endpapers, [Cohen-de Ricci 158-61], 8vo, (5), (faults); Bindings, Ducray-Duminil (François Guillaume), La Fontaine Sainte-Catherine [...], four-volume set, first edition, Paris: Chez Ménard et Raymond, 1813, uniformly bound in contemporary Scottish Regency bindings by Morison & Co of Perth, their ticket, of quarter-calf gilt over marbled boards, marbled edges and endpapers en suite, contemporary Scottish plain armorial bookplates to each pastedown: Seggieden, 12mo, (4); Voltaire, Siècle de Louis XIV, two-volume set, Paris: Librairie de Firmin-Didot et Cie, 1879, contemporary green morocco gilt over cloth, 8vo, (2); further 18th century and later bindings and literature, [33]
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