ASSIER de VALENCHES (P. d'). Research concerning mainly the order of the nobility on the Bailiff's Assembly of the Province of Forez convened in Montbrison, in March 1789, for the election of the deputies to the Estates-General of the Kingdom... by the editor of the Fiefs du Forez. Lyon, Imprimerie Louis Perrin, 1860. In-4°, publisher's cardboard. Printed at 100 copies. Publication of great luxury with engraved coats of arms, not put in the trade and intended for the friends of the author. Very good copy, not trimmed. Handwritten ex-dono from the author to Madame Héléne Des Gouttes, née de Chambost. From the libraries of Des Gouttes and Henri Debard (ex-libris). Defects on the spine.

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