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LOT 2224
General Books - Histoire de L'Armee Francaise
1887 A.D.
8 5/8 x 5 1/2 in. (539 grams, 22 x 14 cm).
Paul Lehugeur - Paris, 1887, cloth covers, 221 pp, gold blocking to edges; to inside cover, pasted label indicating the book having been awarded as a prize for handwriting in 1892. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Property of an Essex gentleman.
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