[Rarebooks] FS: Profusely illus. set of Voltaire's "La Pucelle d'Orleans"

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Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet de. LA PUCELLE D’ORLEANS. Poeme en Vingt-Un 
Chants. Edition Ornee de Figures Gravees par Duplessis Berthault. A Londres. 
MDCCLXXX. [A reissue of the edition of Cazin. Actually, Paris: N.p. 1865]. Lg. 
8vo. 2 vols. (2),xvi,216;(4),176pp. Profusely illustrated. 26 engraved plates, 
each printed in a set of 3 (black, sepia, and blue), plus 24 engraved single 
plates (21 are mounted proofs), and 21 text vignettes. Title pages printed in 
red & black. Finely bound by Thivey (circa 1910) in 1/2 brown morocco over 
marbled boards. Gilt tooled spines with green calf labels and inlays. Extremities 
lightly rubbed. T.e.g.     $450.00 (trade discount allowed)

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