A gorgeous and colourful surrealist design of delicate butterflies fluttering against a rugged Alpine backdrop, one of six designs commissioned from Dali by SNCF, French national railways, to promote travel into the Alpine region.

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AEMYLIUS, Paulus (Paolo EMILIO).

Historici clarissimi de rebus gestis Francorum…

Early editions of the three classical complementary chronicles of France from the fifth to the mid-sixteenth century, often issued and bound together.

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TURGOT,

Anne Robert Jacques and DUPONT de NEMOURS, Pierre Samuel, ed. Oeuvres posthumes ... ou mémoire de M. Turgot, sur les administrations provinciales, mis en parallele avec celui de M. Necker, suivi d’une lettre sur ce plan, & des observations d’un républicain sur ces mémoires; & en général sur le bien qu’on doit attendre de ces administrations dans les monarchies.

First edition, published by Honoré Gabriel Mirabeau. The work was originally drawn up by DuPont de Nemours in 1776 under the title Mémoire sur les municipalités after a draft left by Turgot. The Lettre which begins on page 99 was written by DuPont de Nemours and the Observations (p. 113ff.) by Brissot de Warville. The work was reprinted in 1788.

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