156 - The Regulations of the Lyon Hospital].

The Regulations of the Lyon Hospital]. The Structure of the Administration and Management of the General Hospital of Notre Dame de Pitié du Pont du Rhône, & the Grand Hôtel-Dieu of the City of Lyon. [Followed by] Letters Patent in the Form of an Edict Confirming the Ancient Privileges of the Hospital... [Followed by] Extract from the Registers of the Council of His Royal Highness... [Followed by] Catalog of the Rectors... Lyon, 1734, in-4, 2ff.-143pp.- frontispiece for the first title page. Bound in light, mottled sheepskin, with gilded fillet framing, ribbed spine, title labels, palmettes, and a bird in the spaces between the ribs, red edges. (Contemporary binding).—13 blank folios added at the end. The second spine label bears “Claude Mallava...” (super-libris?). Ex-libris drawn in ink on the endpaper: “gules, an ancient wheel with eight spokes.” Minor scuffing on the binding, one corner bumped, small loss of leather on the second cover near the top cap, a few small pinholes inside, slight water stain in the lower margin of a few leaves in the last volume. On the frontispiece, a beautiful Pietà in a folk style, engraved in intaglio. Bound together with: Letters Patent in the form of an Edict confirming the Ancient Privileges of the Hospital... Lyon, Duvirot, n.d. (1717?); 18 pages. On the title page, a beautiful folk-style Pietà engraved on wood. - [Followed by] Extract from the Registers of the Council of His Royal Highness... regarding the petition submitted... by the Rectors and Administrators of the Great Hospital... 1722; 2 pages. [Followed by] List of the Rectors Appointed to Administer the General Hospital of Our Lady of Mercy at the Rhône Bridge... No place, no date (1743); 122 pages printed in large type on heavy paper. Beautiful woodcut header, in a folk style, featuring grotesques. It lists the names of the administrators from 1583 to 1742.