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French literature. A COLLECTION OF 144 VOLUMES, MOSTLY EIGHTEENTH CENTURY AND IN CONTEMPORARY CALF BINDINGS, ALL WITH THE BOOKPLATE OF STEPHANOS CARATHEODORY, INCLUDING: Boccaccio, Giovanni. Le decameron. "Londres" [Paris], 1757-1761, 5 volumes, 8vo, 5 engraved title-pages, 110 engraved plates, contemporary calf gilt, gilt edges, extremities rubbed Voltaire, François Marie Arouet de. Oeuvres completes. [Kehl]: La Société littéraire typographique, 1784-1789, 70 volumes, 112 engraved portraits plates, contemporary calf, signed by Beaumarchais; Table... Paris: Deterville, 1801, 2 volumes, modern calf in period style; together 72 volumes, bindings rubbed, some worn Restif de la Bretonne, Nicolas Edmé. Le paysan perverti, ou les dangers de la ville. The Hague, 1776, 4 volumes, 12mo, 8 engraved frontispieces, 22+14+22 (of 23)+15 engraved plates, lacking one plate; La paysane pervertie, ou les dangers de la ville. The Hague, 1784, first edition, 4 volumes, 12mo, 8 engraved frontispieces, 10+4+7+9 engraved plates (1 folding); together 8 volumes, contemporary marbled calf gilt, flat spines gilt, marbled edges, bookplate of Paul de Saint-Victor, [Cohen-De Ricci 871], extremities rubbed; [Restif de la Bretonne, Nicolas Edmé] Les contemporaines, ou avantures des plus jolies femmes de l'age present [first series]. Leipzig: Buschel, 1780-1782, 17 volumes, 12mo, 111 (of 113) engraved plates, contemporary cat's-paw calf, flat spines gilt, red edges, bookplate of M. le Mire Dutannay, [Cohen-De Ricci 875], lacking 2 plates, extremities rubbed and 22 others; a full listing is available at sothebys.com or on request