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MEMOIRS OF MAXIMILIAN DE BETHUNE DUKE OF SULLY (5 VOLUMES COMPLETE): Prime Minister of Henry the Great to which is Annexed the Trial of Francis Ravaillac for the Murder of Henry the Great Translated from the French a New Edition in Five Volumes
by Maximilian de Bethune
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good +
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Blue Hill, Maine, United States
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About This Item
London: Allen & Co, 1812. Hardcover. Good +. Vol. 1- xiv + 420 pages. Vol. 2- 424 pages. Vol. 3- 447 pages. Vol. 4- vii+ 496 Vol. 5- 401. 4 1/4 x 7 1/4 in. Each volume in brown half calf binding with blue paper boards. Edge of text block lightly flecked with red. Condition of each volume is GOOD+: Leather dry and flaking, spines heavily worn and soiled, covers heavily worn and soiled each with various small scuff marks and water spots, more worn at corners, corners bent. Top edge of text block darkened a few ink spots on edges, pages foxed, binding fine. Each volume has a small bookplate of David B. Ogden on inside of front cover and is inscribed by Ogden in ink in 1852 on title page. Vol. 1: missing leather label on spine, edges of covers highly abraded, ink spots on rear. Vol. 2- nick to edge of rear cover, top of spine heavily worn. Vol. 3- a few loose pages. Vol. 4- bottom of spine heavily worn, ink spots on cover. Vol. 5- nicks on spine, stain on rear cover, a few dog eared pages.
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- Bookseller
- Andre Strong Bookseller
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1423
- Title
- MEMOIRS OF MAXIMILIAN DE BETHUNE DUKE OF SULLY (5 VOLUMES COMPLETE)
- Author
- Maximilian de Bethune
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Allen & Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1812
- Bookseller catalogs
- Memoirs;
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- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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- Foxed
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