Memoirs of the life of Jacques-Auguste de Thou, state counci - Lot 207

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Memoirs of the life of Jacques-Auguste de Thou, state counci - Lot 207
Memoirs of the life of Jacques-Auguste de Thou, state councilor, and president of Mortier at the Parliament of Paris. Work mixed of prose and verse. First edition translated from Latin and French. Rotterdam, Reiner Leers, 1711. 1 vol. in-4. Full tan calf, gilt arms in the center of the boards, triple gilt fillet framing the boards, ornate ribbed spine, red morocco title-piece. Frontispiece, title, [13]ff, 276pp. Well completed with the portrait-frontispiece of Jacques de Thou, by Jac. Lÿmende. Traces of an old paper stuck on the arms of the frontispiece. > Arms not identified but reproduced by O.H.R, pl. 438. From the Library of Mr. A. Houbigant, with his bookplate pasted to the upper back cover. Handwritten bookplate on title page: De Canchy. Small paper loss on the title page. Missing at the lower headpiece, gilding of the arms slightly faded. JOINT [FUNERAL ORAISONS] Collection of six eighteenth-century funeral orations. 1 vol. in-4. Contemporary calf, spine ribbed and decorated. Missing the title page. - CATHALAN. Funeral oration of Princess Madame Elisabeth-Charlotte Palatine of Bavaria, Dowager Duchess of Orleans. Pronounced in the Church of Laôn, on March 18, 1723. Paris, Veuve Mazières, 1723. Large engraved coat of arms on the title page, header by Hyacinthe Rigaud, by Drevet, and cul-de-lampe by Lemoine by Thomassin. > Manuscript bookplate erased on the title page. - COTONAY. Oration for the same. Nancy, Jean-Baptiste Cusson, 1723. - PERUSSAUT. Funeral oration of Monseigneur le prince royal Leopold-Clement. Nancy, Jean-Baptiste Cusson, 1723. - DE LA SANTE, Xaverio. Ludovico XV. ob pacem cum eo natam et adultam, gratulatio. Lutetiae Parisiorum, Barbou, 1724. Engraved coat of arms, and header by Cars. - DE BROSSARD. Funeral Oration of Louis the Great King of France and Navarre. Tulle, J. Leonard Dalvy, 1716. - MONTAIGNE, Henri Ignace de. Funeral oration of Messire J. Baptiste Lecomte, Captal de la Tresne, first president of the parliament of Bordeaux. Bordeaux, Simon Boe, 1703. Engraved coat of arms, header by Cabrol and engraved lettering.
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