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1739 RARE 5 Book Lot Pluche Histoire du Ciel Spectacle

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1739 RARE 5 Book Lot Pluche Histoire du Ciel Spectacle of Nature Buffon de Sacy

A collection of important 18th-century works including works of Antoine Pluche, Leclerc Buffon, and de Sacy’s ‘History of the Bible’.

Item number: #5495

Price: $499

Main author: Noël Antoine Pluche

Title: Histoire du ciel

Published: A Paris : Chez la veuve Estienne, 1739.

Note : Volume 1

Main author: Noël Antoine Pluche

Title: Le spectacle de la nature

Published: A Paris: 1750

Note: Volume 8

Main author: Isaac Lemaistre de Sacy

Title: L'Histoire du Vieux et du Nouveau Testament, avec des explications édifiantes

Published: Paris : G. Desprez, 1757.

Main author: Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon

Title: Des époques de la nature

Published: A Paris : De l'Imprimerie royale, 1780.

Main author: Guillaume Charles Antoine PIGAULT-LEBRUN

Title: La Famille Luceval, ou mémoires d'une jeune femme qui n'était pas jolie, rédigés par Pigault-Lebrun

Published: A Paris, Barba, 1806.

Note: Vol. 3 & 4

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Collation: Complete with all pages

Language: French

Binding: Leather; tight & secure

Size: ~6.75in X 4in (17cm x 10cm)

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