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Description:
Decorative Bindings, Sets, Twenty-five Volumes.
Octavo volumes in full leather, gilt spines, including: Samuel Clarke's Sermons, London: for J. and P. Knapton, 1749, ten of eleven volumes; Cowper's Poems, London: for J. Johnson, 1787, two volumes, second edition; Malebranche's De La Recherche de la Verite, Paris: Chez Savoye, 1762, four volumes; Hugh Blair's Sermons, London: for Strahan et al., 1794, in five volumes; and four others, approximately 2 1/2 feet of shelf space. (25)
Estimate $300-500
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Keywords
London, Samuel Clarke, La Recherche, Hugh Blair, ParisJohn Dorfman
Director, Books & Manuscripts
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Fine Books & Manuscripts
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