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MARGUERITE DE VALOIS.

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Tales and short stories, put in beautiful language adapted to the tastes of the time. Amsterdam, George Gallet, 1698. 2 volumes small in-8, hard vellum, spine decorated with gold threads, burgundy title-piece, blue head (modern binding). First edition of the illustration drawn and engraved in etching by Jan Harrewijn, comprising 72 very expressive mid-page figures in the style of Romeyn De Hooghe, and a frontispiece by Jan van Vianen after Jan Goeree. This edition was reprinted in 1700 and again in 1708. Yellowed leaves. Brunet, III, 1417 - Cohen, 680 (ed. 1708).