LOT 3672
17th July 2024
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LOT 3672
VOLTAIRE, Francois Marie Arouet de. Memoirs of the Life of Voltaire. Written By Himself. London: G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1785. Third edition, 8vo (173 x 110mm.) (Toning, a newspaper clipping tipped-in to leaf B1, occasional light spotting, a few contemporary annotations to margins.) Contemporary green half calf, red morocco lettering piece to the spine, a gilt lion in the fourth compartment (light rubbing to extremities, some fading to spine). Provenance: Henry P. Marsham (ink name to title and bookplate to the front pastedown). – And a further thirteen volumes related to literature and history (including [Mouffle D’ Angerville’s] ‘The Private Life of Lewis XV’, 4 vols., 1781, 12mo, and, lacking title to volume I, [Daniel Defoe’s] ‘The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York Mariner’, 2 vols., 1790, 8vo, and Robert Simson’s ‘The Elements of Euclid’, 1799, 8vo) (14).
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