Description d’une sphère mouvante, par Antide Janvier
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Description d’une sphère mouvante, donné et écrit par M. Antide Janvier, horologer, écrite par lui-même. Dated Paris, 1823. At the head of the title page is inscribed in red: ‘Pour Lord Egerthon’.
Despatches of Baron de Lowendahl in Corsica, 1731-1732, with letters to him from Maréchal de Saxe, 1744-1748
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Authenticated and other copies of several despatches of the Baron de Lowendahl, while commanding in Corsica, in the years 1731, 1732, with several letters of the Maréchal de Saxe to the Baron Lowendahl, 1744-1748. In a thin folio volume.
A collection of state letters and papers, chiefly from Ambassadors and Envoys of France
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A collection of original state letters and papers, chiefly from Ambassadors and Envoys of France, during the years 1589-1591. Arranged alphabetically in three folio volumes
Voltaire: ‘L’Enfant Prodigue’, with manuscript alterations and corrections by the author
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A printed copy of the ‘Enfant Prodigue’, with numerous alterations and corrections in M. Voltaire’s own hand. No title page. Folio 2 is a slip of paper inscribed: ‘Exemplaire de l’Enft. prodig. q. je crois corrigé et changé de la propre main de Voltaire. Voir dans sa dern. edit.’
Letters from Stanislaus I of Poland, Catherine his Queen, and their daughter Marie, afterwards Queen of Louis XV
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Original letters of Stanislaus I, King of Poland, Queen Catherine (Catherine Opalińska), and their daughter Marie Leszczyńska, later wife of Louis XV of France. They are addressed chiefly to Madame d’Andelau (d’Andlau), and subsequently to the Maréchal du Bourg (Éléonor Marie du Maine, comte du ...