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Il Decamerone, con un Discorso Critico da Ugo Foscolo, PICKERING'S BEAUTIFUL EDITION, elegantly printed, and illustrated with the fine series of engravings from designs by STOTHARD, 3 vols, post 8vo, publisher's boards, UNCUT, £1 5s-1825 [92 BOHN'S Extra Series, THE COMPLETE SET, comprising the Heptameron, Decameron, Exemplary Novels, Fairy Tales, by Count Hamilton, Memoirs of Grammont and Charles II., and Rabelais' Works, together 7 vols, in the original brown cloth, £3 17s 6d-1846, &c. [93 BON GAULTIER'S Book of Ballads, illustrated by Doyle, Leech, and Crowquill, square 8vo, cloth, gilt edges, 7s 6d-1874 [94 BORUWLASKI. The Memoirs of the Celebrated Dwarf, Joseph Boruwlaski, a Polish Gentleman, containing a Faithful and Curious Account of his Birth, Education, Marriage, Travels, and Voyages, written by himself, and carefully revised and corrected, engraved portrait on title, 12mo, old green morocco, 7s 6d-Birmingham, J. 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