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by Jean Joseph Rive

$5,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

First edition

1 p.l., 557 pp.; 1 p.l., lvi, 3 errata , 112 pp. Two vols, cont. French red half-morocco & red glazed boards, flat spines richly gilt, fore-edges untrimmed. London i.e. Aix-en-Provence : “N. Aphobe” =Fearless , 1789. First edition, one of 50 sets printed on Holland paper, ruled throughout in red, and bound in contemporary French red half-morocco. This is the very fine William Beckford Hamilton Palace sale, 1883, lot 1370 — Earl of Rosebery

• Binding: Leather

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