36 - PARIS.— FÉLIBIEN (Michel). History of the City of Paris… Paris, Guillaume Desprez, Jean Desessartz, 1725. 5 folio volumes, 25 x 38.5 cm, 10 folios, CCII (incorrectly numbered CC) + 676 pp., frontispiece and 7 plates, including 4 folded and 1 folio, 868 pp. (numbered 677–1544) + LVI pp., 26 plates (numbered 30), including 20 double plates and 3 folded plates, and VIII + XCVIII pp. (numbered CII) + 820 pp. and 1 f., 840 pp. and 1 f., 948 pp. (numbered 944), contemporary binding in marbled fawn calfskin, spine with raised bands decorated with gilt motifs, title labels.

PARIS.— FÉLIBIEN (Michel). History of the City of Paris… Paris, Guillaume Desprez, Jean Desessartz, 1725. 5 folio volumes, 25 x 38.5 cm, 10 folios, CCII (incorrectly numbered CC) + 676 pp., frontispiece and 7 plates, including 4 folded and 1 folio, 868 pp. (numbered 677–1544) + LVI pp., 26 plates (numbered 30), including 20 double plates and 3 folded plates, and VIII + XCVIII pp. (numbered CII) + 820 pp. and 1 f., 840 pp. and 1 f., 948 pp. (numbered 944), contemporary binding in marbled fawn calfskin, spine with raised bands decorated with gilt motifs, title labels. First edition of this beautiful and monumental history of Paris. Illustrated with an allegorical frontispiece engraved by Ph. Simonneau the Younger after Hallé, a large map dated 1726, engraved by Coquart, folded, and 32 plates engraved by Hérisset, Lucas, or Aveline, some based on drawings by Jean-Michel Chevotet, the king’s architect, or by Jean Chaufournier. Headpieces engraved by Charles-Nicolas Cochin or Ph. Simonneau Jr., after Hallé. The work of Dom Félibien (1665–1719), son of Félibien des Avaux, was continued and expanded by Dom Lobineau (1667–1727), who, like him, belonged to the Congregation of Saint-Maur. In good condition. From the important library of the Premonstratensian Abbey of Cuissy (Cuissy-et-Geny, Aisne), with handwritten notes on the title pages and a library call number (18th century), then from the library in Laon, with a wet stamp on the title page and the last page of each volume (first half of the 19th century), and from the library of Count Bernard de Poncins (1862–1946), featuring an ex-libris bearing the combined coat of arms of himself and his wife, Madeleine d’Orléans de Rère. Small tears at the folds of the map with a minor loss. Slight foxing and a few small water stains. Some worn caps and corners; cracks in the bands of one volume. Millard I, 73. Appraiser: Cédric and Ithier de FOUGEROLLE