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CAESAR. Les Commentaires. Amsterdam and Leipzig,...

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CAESAR. Les Commentaires. Amsterdam and Leipzig, Arkstee & Merkus, 1763. 2 vols. in-12, fawn calf, triple fillet and gilt corner finial, smooth spine decorated (period). Pleasant edition illustrated with 2 large folding maps (with colored outlines for La Gaule antique), 2 portrait-frontispices, and 11 plates. Bound with the arms of Guillaume Castanier d'Auriac, Languedoc (OHR, pl.1081). He was a Councillor at the Parliament of Toulouse and then a State Councillor in 1751. Handwritten bookplate Arman de Vismes, 1906. Binding rubbed, snags to the headpieces, spines split. Some foxing.