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A rare Avignon publication from the Century of Louis XVI, full calfskin smooth spine decorated with gilded irons, yellow ocher morocco title, red edges inside: Handwritten label from the Lycée: Prix d'Emulation to Auguste Barghon Pog de Mariol (Allier). Beautiful fresh copy: "Life of the Great Captains of Antiquity", by Cornélius Népos. New Translation, with Notes by Mr. L'Abbé Paul, Associate of the Academy of Belles-Lettres, Sciences & Arts of Marseille. In Avignon, at J.J. Niel, Printer-Bookseller, rue de la Balance. 1787. Honorable translation of this famous text from Antiquity, easy to read in good conditions, fresh copy...
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