Null MAULTROT, Gabriel-Nicolas & MEY, Claude] - Maximes du droit public françois…
Description

MAULTROT, Gabriel-Nicolas & MEY, Claude] - Maximes du droit public françois, tirées des Capitulaires, des Ordonnances du Royaume, & des autres monumens de l'Histoire de France. 2e éd. double de la précédente. Amsterdam, Marc-Michel Rey, 1775. 6 vol. in-12, paper sometimes yellowed, fawn marbled calf, smooth spine decorated. Against despotism. Published in reaction to Chancellor Maupeou's coup d'état. Enclosed: LE GRAND, Joachim - Traité de la Succession à la couronne, ou la Couronne de France toujours successive linéale agnatique, avec un mémoire touchant la succession à la couronne d'Espagne. Paris, Gabriel Martin, 1728. In-12, (6) ff, 391 pp, (8) ff, traces of dampness on the first few ff, contemporary fawn calf, spine with ornate nerves, qq.epid. SAFFROY I, 12361. First edition. - PINSON DE LA MARTIERE, Jean] - Estat de la France, comme elle estoit gouvernée en l'An M.DC.XLVIII. Où sont contenües diverses remarques et particularitez de l'Histoire de nostre temps (à la sphère). S. l., 1649. In-16, 185 pp, qqs. yellowed ff. including title, br. dominot cover, first cover detached. SAFFROY (Bibl. des Almanachs et Annuaires) n°60. First year known under this title, 1644 having never been described. States of France in 1784. - VOLTAIRE] - Histoire de la guerre de mil sept cent quarante-un. Amsterdam (Paris), 1755. 2 parts in one vol. in-12, (2) ff, 278 pp. ; (2) ff, 208 pp. in contemporary marbled fawn calf, spine ribbed and decorated. Cat. BN (Voltaire) 3548. Second edition reproducing page for page the first published the same year, but without the cartoons recast in the text. Originally published under this title, it later appeared under the definitive title Précis d'Histoire du Siècle de Louis XV. - PERNETTI, Abbé Jacques] - Le Repos de Cyrus, ou l'Histoire de sa vie depuis sa seizième jusqu'à sa quarantième année. Paris, Briasson, 1733. 3 parts in one vol. in-16, XI, 355 (4) pp. in brown bas. spine decorated, upper cuff frayed. Historical novel. Pernetti resorts to fiction to fill a gap, for: ''Neither Xenophon nor the other Greek authors have said anything about this long space of time in what they have told of Cyrus.'' - DUPIN, Louis Ellies] - Traité de la Puissance Ecclésiastique et temporelle. S. l., 1707. In-8, (8) ff, VIII, 779 pp, portrait added, signed on title by Derebier and Bournatel, contemporary granulated fawn calf, spine ribbed and ornamented, upper cuff frayed. First edition. The work deals with the four articles adopted by the general assembly of the clergy in 1682. Put on index May 14, 1708. Louis Ellies Du Pin was related to Racine through his mother. He composed a monumental Bibliothèque des Auteurs Ecclésiastiques containing a large number of bold assertions on the establishment of dogma and the testimony of heretics. He was suspected of sympathy with the Jansenists, and was one of the signatories to the Cas de conscience affair.

441 

MAULTROT, Gabriel-Nicolas & MEY, Claude] - Maximes du droit public françois, tirées des Capitulaires, des Ordonnances du Royaume, & des autres monumens de l'Histoire de France. 2e éd. double de la précédente. Amsterdam, Marc-Michel Rey, 1775. 6 vol. in-12, paper sometimes yellowed, fawn marbled calf, smooth spine decorated. Against despotism. Published in reaction to Chancellor Maupeou's coup d'état. Enclosed: LE GRAND, Joachim - Traité de la Succession à la couronne, ou la Couronne de France toujours successive linéale agnatique, avec un mémoire touchant la succession à la couronne d'Espagne. Paris, Gabriel Martin, 1728. In-12, (6) ff, 391 pp, (8) ff, traces of dampness on the first few ff, contemporary fawn calf, spine with ornate nerves, qq.epid. SAFFROY I, 12361. First edition. - PINSON DE LA MARTIERE, Jean] - Estat de la France, comme elle estoit gouvernée en l'An M.DC.XLVIII. Où sont contenües diverses remarques et particularitez de l'Histoire de nostre temps (à la sphère). S. l., 1649. In-16, 185 pp, qqs. yellowed ff. including title, br. dominot cover, first cover detached. SAFFROY (Bibl. des Almanachs et Annuaires) n°60. First year known under this title, 1644 having never been described. States of France in 1784. - VOLTAIRE] - Histoire de la guerre de mil sept cent quarante-un. Amsterdam (Paris), 1755. 2 parts in one vol. in-12, (2) ff, 278 pp. ; (2) ff, 208 pp. in contemporary marbled fawn calf, spine ribbed and decorated. Cat. BN (Voltaire) 3548. Second edition reproducing page for page the first published the same year, but without the cartoons recast in the text. Originally published under this title, it later appeared under the definitive title Précis d'Histoire du Siècle de Louis XV. - PERNETTI, Abbé Jacques] - Le Repos de Cyrus, ou l'Histoire de sa vie depuis sa seizième jusqu'à sa quarantième année. Paris, Briasson, 1733. 3 parts in one vol. in-16, XI, 355 (4) pp. in brown bas. spine decorated, upper cuff frayed. Historical novel. Pernetti resorts to fiction to fill a gap, for: ''Neither Xenophon nor the other Greek authors have said anything about this long space of time in what they have told of Cyrus.'' - DUPIN, Louis Ellies] - Traité de la Puissance Ecclésiastique et temporelle. S. l., 1707. In-8, (8) ff, VIII, 779 pp, portrait added, signed on title by Derebier and Bournatel, contemporary granulated fawn calf, spine ribbed and ornamented, upper cuff frayed. First edition. The work deals with the four articles adopted by the general assembly of the clergy in 1682. Put on index May 14, 1708. Louis Ellies Du Pin was related to Racine through his mother. He composed a monumental Bibliothèque des Auteurs Ecclésiastiques containing a large number of bold assertions on the establishment of dogma and the testimony of heretics. He was suspected of sympathy with the Jansenists, and was one of the signatories to the Cas de conscience affair.

Auction is over for this lot. See the results