OSMONT DU CELLIER]. Justification of the speeches and the ecclesiastical history of M. l'abbé de Fleury. Paris, 1736. 1 vol. in-12. Full glazed fawn calf, gilt arms in the centre of the boards, ribbed spine, gilt numeral in the caissons, red morocco title-piece. First edition of this defence of the abbé Fleury by the capuchin father Osmont du Sellier, known as Tranquille de Bayeux. "A second volume was published in Holland under the heading of Nancy, in 1738." >Copy of Marie-Jean-Louis de Riquet known as the Marquis de Caraman, Knight of the Order of St. Louis, in 1760 and Brigadier of the King's armies, in 1768. O.H.R. pl. 28, n°3. Barbier, II, 1059.

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