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£40 - £60

3 x Antique French Volumes in superb Condition inc: La Paix Latine (Gabriel Hanotaux 1903), Mémoires - Saint-Simon (1908) & En Marge des Vieux Livres Vol 1 (Jules Lemaitre c.1910). La Paix Latine published by Ancienne Librarie Furne, part leather. Very light wear to edges and corners. Pages starting to age. Name inscription to title page. Mémoires published by Société du Mercure de France. Part leather in very good condition. Light edge and corner scuffing. Pages all very clean and tight - starting to age & En Marge des Vieux Livres Vol 1 published by Société Francaise D'Imprimerie et de Librarie.  Part leather in very good condition. Light edge and corner scuffing. Pages all very clean and tight - starting to age

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La Paix Latine published by Ancienne Librarie Furne, part leather. Very light wear to edges and corners. Pages starting to age. Name inscription to title page. Mémoires published by Société du Mercure de France. Part leather in very good condition. Light edge and corner scuffing. Pages all very clean and tight - starting to age & En Marge des Vieux Livres Vol 1 published by Société Francaise D'Imprimerie et de Librarie. Part leather in very good condition. Light edge and corner scuffing. Pages all very clean and tight - starting to age. Provenance: This lot was amongst a collection from the house of a wealthy French family who lived in the 16th arrondissment of Paris, known for ornate buildings and wide boulevards and a favourite of Parisian high society. The gentleman who purchased them was born in 1877 and spent the war years in the same house, having sent his wife children to stay in the Pyrenees to avoid the Nazi occupation of Paris.  He was unable to get out in time but was fortunate enough to be able to sit out the occupation, keeping these and all other books in the collection safe from the Nazis.