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China.- [Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet de)] Lettres Chinoises, Indiennes et Tartares a Monsieur Paw, par un Benedictin, first edition, half-title, woodcut title vignette and charming head- & tail-pieces, light foxing at beginning and end, stain to lower margin of I4 & 5 and inner margin of L8 & M1, contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt, rubbed, spine ends and corners a little worn, joints split, [cf.Cordier, Sinica 1855, "Londres" i.e.Amsterdam edition], 8vo, Paris [Geneva], 1776.
Lot 95
China.- Voltaire (F.M.A. de) Lettres Chinoises, Indiennes et Tartares a Monsieur Paw, par un Benedictin, first edition, contemporary mottled calf, 8vo, Paris [Geneva], 1776.
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China.- [Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet de)] Lettres Chinoises, Indiennes et Tartares a Monsieur Paw, par un Benedictin, first edition, half-title, woodcut title vignette and charming head- & tail-pieces, light foxing at beginning and end, stain to lower margin of I4 & 5 and inner margin of L8 & M1, contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt, rubbed, spine ends and corners a little worn, joints split, [cf.Cordier, Sinica 1855, "Londres" i.e.Amsterdam edition], 8vo, Paris [Geneva], 1776.