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MARGUERITE DE NAVARRE

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MARGUERITE DE NAVARRE
The News of Marguerite, Queen of Navarre. Bern, New Typographical Society, 1780-1781. 3 volumes in-8, green morocco, triple gilt fillet, fleur-de-lis at the corners, coat of arms in the centre, decorated spine, repeated crowned M numeral, inner lace, brocaded silk lining and endpapers, gilt edges (Chambolle-Duru).
Very nice illustration finely engraved in intaglio, including a Dunker's frontispiece, repeated at the head of each volume, 73 figures by Freudeberg, 72 vignettes and 72
Dunker's
culs-de-lampe
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copy bound in morocco by chambolle-duru, with undetermined arms

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From the Étienne Beauvillain library, with ex-libris

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Some rubbing at the binding.