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Les iniquités découvertes ou Recueil des Pieces, curieuses & rares qui ont paru lors du procès de Damiens.

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Book Description

8vo, [4],192 p., title device of repeated printers ornaments with central solar design. Contemporary calf, banded spine, gilt decorated compartments (slightly rubbed), boards alike with gilt roll outer border of gilt stars and flourishes. Account of the judicial punishment of Robert Francois Damiens, would be assassin of Louis XIV and last man to be hung, drawn and quartered in France. A very good copy (small blank outer marginal tear to one leaf). Exlibris bookplate of Cholmondley library. [Ref: 1473] £140
Author [Grosley, Pierre Jean].
Date 1760.
Publisher A Londres [i.e. Paris]: [s.i.],

Price: £100.00

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