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RICHELIEU (Armand-Jean du Plessis, cardinal-duc de).
Instruction du chrestien. S.l.n.d. Paris, Imprimerie royale du Louvre, 1642]. In-folio, fawn calf, double gilt fillet, ornamented spine (Binding of the time). 500/600 € Beautiful edition of the catechism addressed by the Cardinal-Duke of Richelieu to the priests of his diocese of Luçon. It is decorated with an allegorical title-frontispice, unsigned, headers, lettering and endpapers, all engraved in intaglio. Paper a little foxed. Restoration to the binding (one headpiece, upper hinge and two corners).
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RICHELIEU (Armand-Jean du Plessis, cardinal-duc de).