A large group of miscellaneous volumes

including Jacques-François Blondel, De la Distribution des Maisons de Plaisance, et de la Décoration des Edifices en General, Chez Charles-Antoine Jombert, Paris, 1732, Sylvain Maréchal, Les Antiquités d'Herculanum avec leurs Explications en François, Chez David, Paris, 1780, The Complete Writings of Nathaniel Hawhthorne, Vol. I-XXII, Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1903, Hector Malot, Les Amants, Paris, La Libraire Nouvelle, 1870 and Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Eugene Aram, London, G. Routledge & Co., 1854; mostly leather-bound. Approximately 389 volumes.

All with signs of normal wear. 18th-century books with tears, abrasions, discolorations and marks, all consistent with age and use. One Blondel volume with tear to upper section of spine.
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