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VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET DE) La Pucelle d'Orléans, poeme en vingt-un chants... nouvelle édition, WITH SUITE OF EROTIC ENGRAVINGS, 1780; PREVOST. Manon Lescaut, 2 vol., crushed red morocco by Lortic, 1797l; and another edition of Pucelle (4) image 1
VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET DE) La Pucelle d'Orléans, poeme en vingt-un chants... nouvelle édition, WITH SUITE OF EROTIC ENGRAVINGS, 1780; PREVOST. Manon Lescaut, 2 vol., crushed red morocco by Lortic, 1797l; and another edition of Pucelle (4) image 2
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VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET DE)
La Pucelle d'Orléans, poeme en vingt-un chants... nouvelle édition, , WITH SUITE OF EROTIC ENGRAVINGS, 1780; PREVOST. Manon Lescaut, 2 vol., crushed red morocco by Lortic, 1797; and another edition of Pucelle (4)

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[VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET DE)]

La Pucelle d'Orléans, poeme en vingt-un chants... nouvelle édition, engraved frontispiece, portrait plate, with the SUITE OF 18 EROTIC ENGRAVED PLATES (the so-called 'suite anglais' by Marillier), contemporary red crushed morocco gilt, gilt morocco spine label, g.e. [Cohen-De Ricci 1032], 12mo (125 x 70mm.), London [but Paris, Cazin], 1780--PRÉVOST D'EXILES (ANTOINE FRANCOIS) Histoire de Manon Lescaut et du Chevalier des Grieux, 2 vol., half-titles, 8 engraved plates by J.J. Coiny after L.J. Lefevre, red crushed morocco gilt by Lortic (signed on dentelle inside upper covers), g.e. [Cohen-De Ricci 823], 8vo (140 x 90mm.), Paris, P. Didot l'Ainé, 1797; and another edition of La Pucelle (4)

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