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Author	Demoustier, C.A. [Charles-Albert Demoustier 1760-1801]
Title	LETTRES A EMILIE SUR LA MYTHOLOGIE .. Première Partie + Seconde Partie
PlacePub	Paris
Publisher	Ant. Aug. Renouard
Date	1804 [An] xiii
Illustrations	Engraved plates (12) + frontis portrait of the author.
Description	Two Volumes in One 18mo gilt decorated marbled leather (rebacked with old label relaid/edges rubbed/corners worn with some leather loss) All Edges Gilt 146pp +129pp +[1]p publisher's colophon. Half-titles list this as "Oeuvres de C.A. Demoustier". Aside from a corner torn off the rear blank endpaper this is a neat clean, tight and crisp copy. *A collection of the major Greco-Roman gods and their legends, lives and loves. There was some complaint that the illustrations of these early editions before about 1816 showed too much nudity ..
Booknumber	P4894
Price	Price: GBP 18.00 or USD 22.00
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