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BINDING - MADAME VICTOIRE DE FRANCE BASIL, Saint. Lettres de Saint le Grand, Archevesque de Cesaree, en Cappadoce, traduites du Grec, Paris, Pierre and Imbert Debats, 1701
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BINDING - MADAME VICTOIRE DE FRANCE
BASIL, Saint. Lettres de Saint le Grand, Archevesque de Cesaree, en Cappadoce, traduites du Grec, woodcut device on title, engraved vignette on dedication (shaved at head), contemporary French olive morocco, sides with 3-line fillet border enclosing the arms of Madame Victoire de France, spine tooled in compartments, one red morocco spine label, g.e., head of spine refurbished, 8vo (183 x 110mm.), Paris, Pierre and Imbert Debats, 1701
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Provenance: Madame Victoire de France (1733-1799), second daughter of Louis XIV; Joannes Gennadius (1844–1932, Greek minister), named as the owner when this volume was exhibited as item no. 111 in the Burlington Fine Arts Club Exhibition of Bookbindings, 1891.
