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MONTESQUIEU (Charles Louis de Secondat)

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Letters Persian. Cologne, Pierre Marteau, 1731; two volumes, following: Lettres d'une Turque à Paris, écrites à sa soeur au sérail, pour servir de supplément aux Lettres Persanes. Large volume in-12 (17x10 cm), contemporary calf, spine ribbed and decorated. 312-340 and 132 pages. Famous epistolary novel, the work is published without author's name, in order to avoid censorship, it was published under the pseudonym of Pierre Marteau and the false place of Cologne

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