BINDING -- PORTALIS, Jean-Étienne-Marie (1745-1807). De l'usage et de l'abus de l'esprit philosophique durant le dix-huitième siècle, Paris: A. Égron, 1820. 2 volumes, 8° (198 x 123mm.), engraved portrait of the author, BOUND FOR MARIE-LOUISE, EMPRESS OF THE FRENCH in contemporary red morocco gilt, covers with decorative border of double fillets and a stylized flower-head roll tool surrounding the central crowned 'M L' monogram, flat spines divided into five compartments by horizontal fillets and roll tools, lettered in the second, numbered in the third, gilt turn-ins, blue watered silk liners, gilt edges (small chips to head of spines). Provenance : Marie-Louise, Empress of the French (binding); Calvin Bullock (bookplate). (2)
BINDING -- PORTALIS, Jean-Étienne-Marie (1745-1807). De l'usage et de l'abus de l'esprit philosophique durant le dix-huitième siècle, Paris: A. Égron, 1820. 2 volumes, 8° (198 x 123mm.), engraved portrait of the author, BOUND FOR MARIE-LOUISE, EMPRESS OF THE FRENCH in contemporary red morocco gilt, covers with decorative border of double fillets and a stylized flower-head roll tool surrounding the central crowned 'M L' monogram, flat spines divided into five compartments by horizontal fillets and roll tools, lettered in the second, numbered in the third, gilt turn-ins, blue watered silk liners, gilt edges (small chips to head of spines). Provenance : Marie-Louise, Empress of the French (binding); Calvin Bullock (bookplate). (2)
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