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Author: Aubery du Maurier, Louis and Thomas Brown
Title: The Lives of All the Princes of Orange; From William the Great, Founder of the Common-wealth of the United Provinces
Place: London
Publisher: Thomas Bennet
Date: 1693
Item # : 210217
Sale Number   429
Lot Number   12
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Rare Books & Manuscripts: The Library of Kent Johnson (with additions)
Sale Date   05/27/2010
Price realized   $ 216
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Description:
[xxxii], 144, 115-305 pp. 6 full engraved portraits. (8vo) 18x11 cm. (7¼x4½") period full calf, red morocco spine label. First Edition in English.
Title continues: "Written in French b y the Baron Maurier, in the Year 1682, and published at Paris, by order of the French King. To which is added the Life of His Present Majesty King William the Third, from His Birth to His Landing in England, By Mr. Thomas Brown. Together with all the Princes Heads taken from Original Draughts." Wing A4184
Condition:
Leather worn, front cover loosely attached by a single binding cord, lacking blanks at front and rear, small piece clipped from head of title page; good.
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