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Costumes religieux - [DANEAU (Lambert)]. Traité de l'estat honneste des Chrestiens en leur accoustrement. [Followed by:] Deux Traitez de Florent Tertullian [...] et un Arrest de la cour [ ...] pour la réformation des habits & tiltres selon la qualité des personnes. Geneva, Jean de Laon, 1580. 3 works bound in 1 vol. small in-8 (15.8 x 10 cm) of 191 pp. ; 68 pp., 1 f. n. ch. ; 8 pp., glazed fawn calf, triple gilt fillet framing the boards, arms in the center, spine decorated with a repeated crowned numeral, red edges (18th century binding). Collection of three rare works on Christian and gentlemanly dress. The first treatise warns the Reformed faithful against immoral and decadent ways of dressing. Its author, Lambert Daneau (1530-1595), was a Calvinist theologian born in the Loiret region of France. Two other texts on the same subject are bound together: Deux traitez [...] L'un des Parures & ornemens. L'autre des Habits & accoustremens des femmes Chrestiennes. Plus un traité de sainct Cyprian, Evesque de Carthage, touchant la discipline & les habits des filles (Genève, Jean de Laon, 1580), which is a translation of Tertullian by the same Daneau, originally published in Orléans in 1565 by Éloi Gibier ; and an Arrest de la cour, contenant règlement pour les armes, tiltres et qualitez des Gentils-hommes & de leurs femmes, Et pour la réformation des habits & tiltres selon la qualité des personnes ([Dijon], Claude Guyot, 1625). A copy bearing the arms and repeated cipher of the Marquis Charron de Ménars. Président à mortier du Parlement de Paris, brother-in-law of Colbert, Jean-Jacques Charron, Marquis de Menars (1643-1718), was one of the greatest bibliophiles of his time. This copy subsequently passed into the collection of Cardinal de Rohan-Soubise, who had acquired most of the Menarsiana bibliotheca in the early 18th century (Cat. 1788, no. 642 and handwritten mark on the first flyleaf). In the 19th century, it was part of the library of Nicolas Yemeniz (cat. 1867, no. 317). The name of Geneva, which appears on the title pages of the first two books, has been carefully crossed out. Covers skilfully restored, upper jaw fragile, otherwise a very fine copy in a binding with the arms of the Marquis Charron de Ménars (O. H. R., pl.185, fers 1 and 3).