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Piéces détachées, attribuées à divers hommes célèbres. Tome second.
by Voltaire, François-Marie d'Arouet (1694-1778), ed
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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About This Item
Geneva: Geneva: (Cramer et Bardin), 1775. Full leather. Very Good. Octavo, volume two only; 448, [i]pp. In contemporary full speckled calf (extremities lightly worn, spine rubbed), gilt roll to board margins, spine gilt, spine labels missing, original marbled endpapers, light spotting to opening and closing leaves, closing errata leaf present, a clean complete odd volume example produced within Voltaire's lifetime of this attractive edition, with each page set within an ornamental frame.
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- Bookseller
- Lyppard Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000712
- Title
- Piéces détachées, attribuées à divers hommes célèbres. Tome second.
- Author
- Voltaire, François-Marie d'Arouet (1694-1778), ed
- Format/Binding
- Full leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Geneva: (Cramer et Bardin)
- Place of Publication
- Geneva
- Date Published
- 1775
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- voltaire works OBERN AIMON Jacques SHERLOC CAILLE MAMAKI
- Bookseller catalogs
- Antiquarian books; Antiquarian English Literature;
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About Lyppard Books
Lyppard Books was established in Worcester, UK, in 2012, adopting the unusual name from Lyppard Grange, once a farm attached to the monastery of Worcester's ancient cathedral. We maintain a small and select stock of English and Continental antiquarian titles from the dawn of western printing to the 19th century, and aim to offer original, early examples of scarce and sought-after texts.
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- Gilt
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- Calf
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- Errata
- Errata: aka Errata Slip A piece of paper either laid in to the book correcting errors found in the printed text after being...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Spine
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