[RELIGIOSA] [LA ROCHEFOUCAULD ARMS BINDING] Le Maistre de SACY - Ezechiel Chez Eugène Henry Fricx imprimeur du Roy, à Bruxelles, 1701 - Superb copy of this excellent edition of the Latin text translated into French with an explanation drawn from the holy fathers and ecclesiastical authors by Le Maistre de Sacy. Bound in full red morocco, spine ribbed and decorated with gilt fillets and fleurons, double framing of gilt fillets on the covers, gilt coat of arms in the center, gilt lace on the edges and back covers, marbled and fully gilt edges, rubbing and slight tears, not serious. In-12, 697pp + table. Provenance: François duc de la Rochefoucauld, grand veneur and grand maitre de la garde-robe du roi Louis XIV (1679), binding with his coat of arms (see Olivier Hermal, armorial bindings, plate 709).

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