Bossuet, Jacques Benigne

Discours sur L'Histoire Universelle, a Monseigneur le Dauphin: Pour expliquer la suite de la Religion & les changemens des Empires [Part I] and Suite de L'Histoire Universelle [Part II] - From the library of Augusta Mary Leigh (signed by her)

Paris: Christophe David, 1758. Augusta Mary Leigh (née Byron). 2 vols., sm. octavo, pp.(vi), 558; (viii), 340, pages tanned, light foxing, edges stained red, professionally rebound in full gilt tooled ornate fine leather binding, new marbled eps, signed 'Augusta Mary Leigh' upper title page, a detailed hand-written biography of Augusta opposite title page. A beautifully bound set with good provenance.

From the Library of Augusta Mary Leigh (née Byron) with her signature, half-sister of the poet Lord Byron, to whom he dedicated his poems "Stanzas to Augusta" and "Epistle to Augusta" Item #96199

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