ANTIQUE BOOKBINDING.

-ORONCE DE BRIANVILLE. A Methodical Summary of the History of France… (Paris, 17th century).

17th-century havana calfskin with pebbled grain, ribbed spine (faded, title page missing and replaced by a handwritten page).

Dedicated to His Grace the Dauphin with an allegorical vignette by Le Clerc and a large allegorical engraved frontispiece bearing the Dauphin’s coat of arms. Numerous etched busts in the centre of the pages.

Provenance: M. Devilliers À LA NOUE, ex-libris engraved with coat of arms and motto

-FENELON. The Adventures of Telemachus, Son of Ulysses. Paris, Ancelle, 1798. 2 vols. in-8, full contemporary marbled fawn sheepskin.

-PEREZ, Antonio. Institutiones imperiales, erotematibus distinctae, atque ex ipsis principiis regulisque Iuris, passim insertis, explicatae. Vesaliae, apud Andream ab Higenhuysen, 1670. In-12, fawn sheepskin with speckled back. Former handwritten bookplate crossed out, title page restored.

-SAINT-LAMBERT. Les Saisons, a poem. Seventh edition. Amsterdam, 1775. In-8, full fawn marbled sheepskin of the period. 

Provenance: from the library of Mr Devilliers at La Noue. 

-TASSO, Torquato. LE TASSE. Aminta Favola Boscareccia. London, 1780. 8vo, full contemporary speckled fawn sheepskin.

A frontispiece title page by Joan Lapi, engraved on copper by himself, and 5 plates by Joan and Giovanni Lapi.

-THEATRE DE M. DE FLORIAN. Paris, Didot l’aîné, 1786. Second edition. 3 volumes in-16, contemporary speckled calf. Includes engravings outside the text.

Also included: 

VALENTIN, F. Abrégé de l’Histoire des Croisades (1095–1291). Third edition. Tours, Ad Mame et Cie, 1841. In-12, period romantic blue sheepskin.