RABAUT DE SAINT-ÉTIENNE (Jean Paul).

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RABAUT DE SAINT-ÉTIENNE (Jean Paul).
Letters to Monsieur Bailly on the early history of Greece. Paris, Debure the Elder, 1787. In-8, marbled basane, spine decorated, red title coin, label from side to top, red edges (contemporary binding). Original edition of these eight letters, half dealing with astronomy, addressed to the mathematician Jean-Sylvain Bailly who perished on the revolutionary scaffold in 1793. Small hole touching a word on the last page, without gravity. Rubbing at the corners, small missing tail.
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