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Author: Bayle, Pierre
Title: The Dictionary, Historical and Critical of Mr. Peter Bayle
Place: London
Publisher: J.J. & P. Knapton, et al.
Date: 1734-1738
Item # : 122501
Sale Number   246
Lot Number   27
Sale Name    
Books in All Fields with Mineralogy, Modern Literature and OZiana
Sale Date   08/15/2002
Sale Time   1pm PST
Low Estimate   $ 400
High Estimate   $ 700
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Description:
5 vols. With copper-engraved frontispiece portrait of Bayle. (folio) 13¾x8¾, later half morocco & cloth, spines ruled & lettered in gilt, raised bands. Second Edition in English.
Bayle's famed critical compendium of literary and historical writings and writers, with copious notes. Formerly in the Fuller Collection of the Spokane Public Library, with spine numbers in gilt, labels on front pastedowns, perforated stamps to title-pages, a few rubberstamps within and to Vol. IV title. Ink signature of Richard Davenport to half-title of Vol. V.
Condition:
Scuffing to joints and extremities, tape-residue to feet of spines, else very good, internally near fine.
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