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Pretty romantic binding in glazed tawny calfskin, smooth spine adorned with a decoration of small gilt irons in the center of Gothic motifs.
CONDITION: Leather a little faded, some minor traces. Interiors in good condition, slight yellowing & some rare foxing. In volume 1 a wetting in the top margin of the first 200 pp (approx.) Good general condition.
Le Siècle de Louis XIV is a work by Voltaire published in 1751. In this work, Voltaire does not claim to deliver a historical reflection, but a philosophical one, trying "to paint for posterity, not the actions of a single man, Louis XIV, but the minds of men in the most enlightened age that ever was. »
AUTHOR: Voltaire
TITLE: Centuries of Louis XIV and Louis XV.
PUBLISHER: Au Bureau des Editeurs, Paris and 1829 (Library of Friends of Letters collection, or Choice of the best French authors)
Opposite the title pages "Paris, Grimprelle, bookseller, rue Poissonnière, n° 21" "Nantes, Suireau Couffinhal, bookseller, Place Royale", Sens chez Malvin. 1830
Colophon: "Printing Marchand du Breuil, No. 80"
6 volumes in 3 vol of approx 250 pp each
Subject: VOLTAIRE Centuries of Louis XIV and Louis XV 1829 Romantic half-calf binding 67450453