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DU MOLINET (Claude). The Cabinet of the Library of Sainte Geneviève. Divisé en deux parties. Contenant les Antiquitez de la Réligion des Chrétiens, des Égyptiens, & des Romains; des tombeaux, des poids & des médailles; des monnoyes, des pierres antiques gravées, & des mineraux; des talismans, des lampes antiques, des animaux les plus rares & les plus singuliers, des coquilles les plus considérables, des fruits étrangers, & quelques plantes exquises. Paris, Antoine Dezallier, 1692. 2 parts in an in-folio volume with continuous pagination of (4) ff, 224-(8) pp; marbled calf, ornate ribbed spine, red morocco title page, marbled edges (period binding). First edition of one of the most beautiful descriptions of a cabinet of curiosities. The illustration consists of 2 title-frontispieces, a portrait of the author, and 45 engraved plates (7 plates including 5 double plates showing the cabinet, 31 plates of Egyptian and Roman objects: lamps, weights, coins, medals, engraved stones, talismans, coins and medals of France and the popes, and 6 plates of natural history). Handwritten bookplate of Madame de La Villegontier. Handwritten bookplate of Abbé de Lesquen, vicar general of Dol and Quimper. Very worn binding, small amount of wetness in the margins of the first few leaves, burnt hole in the three leaves of the preface and in the first plate.

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DU MOLINET (Claude). The Cabinet of the Library of Sainte Geneviève. Divisé en deux parties. Contenant les Antiquitez de la Réligion des Chrétiens, des Égyptiens, & des Romains; des tombeaux, des poids & des médailles; des monnoyes, des pierres antiques gravées, & des mineraux; des talismans, des lampes antiques, des animaux les plus rares & les plus singuliers, des coquilles les plus considérables, des fruits étrangers, & quelques plantes exquises. Paris, Antoine Dezallier, 1692. 2 parts in an in-folio volume with continuous pagination of (4) ff, 224-(8) pp; marbled calf, ornate ribbed spine, red morocco title page, marbled edges (period binding). First edition of one of the most beautiful descriptions of a cabinet of curiosities. The illustration consists of 2 title-frontispieces, a portrait of the author, and 45 engraved plates (7 plates including 5 double plates showing the cabinet, 31 plates of Egyptian and Roman objects: lamps, weights, coins, medals, engraved stones, talismans, coins and medals of France and the popes, and 6 plates of natural history). Handwritten bookplate of Madame de La Villegontier. Handwritten bookplate of Abbé de Lesquen, vicar general of Dol and Quimper. Very worn binding, small amount of wetness in the margins of the first few leaves, burnt hole in the three leaves of the preface and in the first plate.

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