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Fine Binding. Quillet (Claudius/Claude, Abbé) & Rowe (Nicholas, translator), Callipædia. A Poem, In Four Books. With Some Other Pieces. To which is Prefix'd, Mr Bayle's Account of His Life, first edition thus, [issued with] Cobb (Samuel, translator), An Epistle to Eudoxus, [&] idem, A Panegyrical Elegy On the Death of Gassendus, The Celebrated Astronomer and Philosopher. Inscrib'd to the Reverend Mr. Flamsteed, of Greenwich, London: Printed for E. Sanger, and E. Curll 1712, allegorical frontispiece engraved by Michael Vandergucht, general and divisional title-pages, publisher's advertisement leaf to verso, finely bound in contemporary red morocco, gilt to a cottage roof design, possibly a presentation binding, covers detached, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, 8vo
Provenance: Robert Hayhurst (1929-2016), bibliophile; his pictorial bookplate to pastedown.
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