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£260.00
[AULNOY, Madame d’.] ~ Le Prince Désir. [N.p., N.d., but probably Caen: Chalopin, c.1800-1810]
Rare chapbook style fairy-tale romance, which has the same design as the booklets published by Pierre Chalopin who worked in Caen around 1800-1810.
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The text is probably derived from that of Madame d’Aulnoy (1650/1-1705).
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£65.00
(BLIND EDUCATION). ~ Report of the Catholic Blind Asylum, 59, Brunswick Road, Liverpool, (established in 1841,) read at the annual meeting of the subscribers and friends at the asylum on Monday, the 9th February, 1863, The very Rev. Canon Walmsley president of the institution in the chair; with a statement of the accounts, and list of subscribers, & c. Liverpool: M. Rourke, Printer, South John Street, 1863.
The eighteenth annual report of the Liverpool Catholic Blind Asylum for children (for the year 1862).
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Includes also the rules and regulations for the government of the Asylum, founded in 1841 by the very reverend Dr Thomas Youens.
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£175.00
(FABLES). PHAEDRUS, Caius Julius and Jean de La Fontaine. ~ Fables de Phedre, avec la contruction du texte et de la version interlinéaire, auxquelles on a joint les fables que La Fontaine a imitées de cet auteur. Lyon: les Frères Perisse, 1790.
A nice Lyon-printed interlinear Latin/French fable book, presumably intended for the use of young students of Latin.
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Several fables of La Fontaine are appended at the end.
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