Lot 963
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BURY, (R.) de. Histoire de Philippe, et d'Alexandre le Grand, Rois de Macédoine. Dédiée au Roi de Danemarck. Par., 1760. xviii, 587, (1) pp. 4°. Cont. cf. w. raised bands, richly dec. gilt back & red label, mottled edges & marbled endpapers. (Sl. browned in places).
Good copy of this rare work by Richard de Bury (c.1730? – c.1794?), protégé of Count Bernstorf, ambassador of the Court of Denmark in Paris (hence the dedication of the work). He is more famous for the attacks he was subjected to by Voltaire, Grimm and La Beaumelle, than for his own writings. - Cioranescu, XVIII, 14192.€ 100
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