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L’Edition D’Art H. Piazza, Paris, . Large folio containing twenty-four individual 10" x 13" color pastel portrait plates of famous French personages, by premier 18th century French portraitist Maurice Quentin de la Tour (1704-1788), each superbly reproduced in color lithograph on double-weight paper protected with its own guard tissue bearing the subject’s name in letterpress. Encased in the original marbled-board portfolio with linen tie and accompanied by the full-size six page booklet, printed on Rives paper, containing titles and biographical notes for each personage. Text in French. Includes portraits of Rousseau, Voltaire, Jean Restout, Mme. de Pompadour, Louis XV, opera singer Marie Fel, famed danseuse Mlle. de Camargo, Latour himself, and numerous other notables of 18th century French high society. No printed publication date (circa 1900). All prints sparkling and Fine. Portfolio case Very Good. A rare and beautiful item, with the only other copies on record in collections at… Read More

Harper Science Library, NY, 1962; First Edition; 8vo, 346 pages plus a 4-page Harper catalogue at the back. A study of mathematical logic, with chapters on Statements, Quantifications, Terms, Extended Theory Of Classes, Relations, Number, and Syntax, plus appendices on List of Definitions and List of Theorems and Measurements, and a complete Bibliography. First paperback edition. Very Good, in illustrated wraps. No ownership signatures, or any other markings of any kind.