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"L'abbaye royale de Fontevraud", multiple authors, Ed. Connaissance des Arts

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"L'abbaye royale de Fontevraud", multiple authors, Ed. Connaissance des Arts

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DU FOSSÉ (Pierre Thomas). Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de Port-Royal. Utrecht, at the expense of the Company, 1739. In-12 marbled calf, ornate spine, title page (contemporary binding). Upper headband torn off, corners dull, rubbed. Engraved title vignette depicting the abbey of Port-Royal. First edition of these memoirs favorable to Port-Royal. Some foxing.

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BAYLE (Luc Marie). Le Voyage de la Nouvelle Incomprise. Paris, Ozanne, 1953. In-4 hardback ed. Travelogue reproduced in facsimile with numerous drawings by the author in black and color in the text. Edition of 215 copies (unnumbered). A very good copy with a large and beautiful ORIGINAL DRAWING with autograph signed by the author on the endpapers.

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BOUILLART (Jacques). History of the Royal Abbey of Saint Germain des Prez. Paris, Grégoire Dupuis, 1724. In folio, brown calf, ornate ribbed spine, red morocco title page (period binding). First edition, illustrated with 24 engraved plates (3 plans including 1 fold-out, 4 views including 2 beautiful fold-outs by Chafourier, and 17 plates showing the abbey's tombs, altars and relics). A good copy. Latin bookplate on title of the Abbey des Blancs-Manteau, Paris, part of the Saint-Maur congregation, and another handwritten note: "ex-dono de l'auteur, nous l'avons fait relier". Corners and edges worn, first spine partly split, small light marginal wetness.

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Almanach royal. Année bissextile M.DCC.LXXXVIII [...] Paris, Debure et D'Houry, 1788. In-8 red morocco, ribbed spine decorated with fleur-de-lys caissons, gilt title and date, handsome gilt Dubuisson-style framed plate on covers with large gilt coat of arms in center (period binding). A very fine copy bearing the arms of the CAISSE D'ESCOMPTE DE PARIS. The Caisse d'escompte was a French financial organization, first established in 1767 under Louis XV, dissolved two years later, and re-established by Louis XVI in 1776. It is considered the forerunner of the Banque de France. l'Almanach Royal est entre les mains de tout le monde; il est chez les Princes, sur le bureau du Roi; les Ministres étrangers s'en pourvoient." (Mairobert, L'espion anglois, 1785) The Almanach royal is an administrative yearbook conceived in 1683 by bookseller and printer Laurent d'Houry, who presented it to Louis XIV in 1699. It appeared under this title until 1792, then under other titles until 1919, and remained in the d'Houry family until 1814. Each year, it presented, in the official order of precedence, the list of members of the French royal family, princes of the blood, and the principal bodies of the kingdom: great officers of the Crown, members of the high clergy, abbots of the great abbeys (with the income of each abbey), marshals of France, colonels and general officers, ambassadors and consuls of France, presidents of the principal jurisdictions, conseillers d'État, bankers, etc. (O.H.R. 1620, fer n°3).

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