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From the library of Louis Joseph de Bourbon

Sold for $250 at PBA Galleries Auctions & Appraisers on May 15, 2025.

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Heading: Author: Barbe, Philippe Title: Fables et Contes Philosophiques Place Published: Paris Publisher:Chez Delalain Date Published: 1771 Description: 216 pp. 14.3x8.5 cm (5½x3½”), finely bound in maroon full morocco tooled in gilt with the arms of Louis-Joseph de Bourbon, Prince of Condé. Spine tooled and lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, gilt-ornamented dentelles, blue-coated endpapers. First Edition. Louis Joseph de Bourbon (1736-1818) was the Prince of Condé and cousin to King Louis XVI. During the French Revolutionary Wars he was head of the Army of Condé, a field army of the royalist emigrés. Ownership marks on title page.

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