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These four beautiful volumes in 12, full speckled calfskin spine with raised bands decorated with gilded irons, red edges marbled title endpapers and red and olive morocco volume number, two-tone titles; printed in Paris, quai des Augustins at Didot at the Bible d'Or, Nyon, Fils, at l'Occasion, Darmonneville, in Saint-Estienne and Savoye, rue S. Jacques, at l'Espérance. 1750. Work by the prolific Abbot of Choisy "History of France" under the Reigns of S. Louis, Philippe de Valois, King John, Charles V. & Charles VI. François-Timoléon de Choisy was born on August 16, 1644 in Paris where he died on October 2, 1724, Religious Man of Letters, Memorialist and French Academician. A new collective edition incorporating the separate original editions published at the end of the 17th century
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