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Lot 385
Sale 437 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
May 5, 2016
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Lot Description
DUNCAN, WILLIAM
The Commentaries of Caesar. London: J. and R. Tonson, 1753.Folio, full paneled calf, custom slipcase, renewed endpapers. First edition. Complete with 86 plates (plates III-IV combined to form one view) including the frontispiece portrait views, plans and maps, including fold-outs and double-page. Light edgewear to boards with hinges slightly tender; minor intermittent foxing; bottom edge of plate 62 is torn at the margin. With the engraved bookplates of Mrs. Charles Brune Henville, and another that states: Fax Copia Sapientia, Fletcher Fleming Rayrigg. Complete with [6],[i]-civ, 335 pp., [20] pages of index.



