MAHUET (Cte A. de ) - Biographie de la Cour Souveraine de Lorraine & Barrois, et du Parlement de Nancy (1641-1690). Nancy, Sidot Frères, 1911; in-8, XX, 316 pp. bound in bottle-green half cloth, smooth spine, black morocco title-piece. Decorated with 42 portraits and 280 coats of arms, first edition. Also by the same author, Biographie de la chambre des comptes de Lorraine, published by Poncelet and Victor Berger in 1914. Consultant : Mr. Philippe HENRY

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