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PHILOSOPHY -- (HEMSTERHUIS, F.). Lettre sur les Desirs, à M. T(heodoor) D(e) S(meth). Par., (=Haarlem), 1770. 53 pp. W. engr. ti-vign. & 2 small engr. in the text. Sm-8°. Cont. brown cf. w. spine & sides dec. in gilt, gilt dec. edges & inside dentelles, a.e.g. (Joints slightly split at head & foot, wear to extremities, w. annot. in old hands in ink on v° endpaper & discreet owner's stamp "Boullet-Lacroix").
Binding by Christiaan Micke, see: Storm van Leeuwen, IIa, p. 140-141. " His (= Hemsterhuis') extant papers prove that Micke must have bound hundreds of copies for him...". Also: Storm van Leeuwen, 18de-eeuwse Haagse Boekband, pp. 399 ff.; roll V, roll XXIII on sides, stamp 59 on spine. - Stoddard 3.€ 500
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