ANTIQUE BOOKBINDING.

-SULLY (Maximilien de Béthune, known as).

Memoirs, or Royal State, Domestic, Political and Military Economies of Henry the Great.

Published in Amsterdam at the expense of the Company, 1725.

12 volumes in-16. Contemporary mottled havana calfskin, ribbed spine, red title label, gilt volume numbers, panels decorated with small metalwork, gilt roulette on the edges, caps and interior, red-speckled edges (minor repairs to the binding, a few scuffs,

on the inside, including water stains on a few quires and some foxing and soiling). 

-HELVETIUS (Jean-Adrien).

Treatise on the Most Common Diseases and Specific Remedies for

cure them, together with instructions on how to use them… Paris: P.-A. Le Mercier, 1727.

2 volumes in-12. Contemporary speckled havana calf, ribbed spine, fawn title label, stamped volume numbers, decorated panels, red edges (restorations to corners, caps and clamps, scuffing on the edges, slight foxing, water damage affecting the text in vol. 2). A new edition of this practical treatise, which enjoyed great success from its first edition in 1703. Handwritten ownership marks on the endpapers: “This book belongs to me / Dupuy, surgeon” and “This book belongs to me / Louis Alexandre Joseph [Annillet?], student of surgery / employed at the

the Navy Hospital in Rochefort. In Rochefort, 19 Prairial, Year … of the French Republic”.