240 - ANTIQUE BOOKBINDINGS.

ANTIQUE BOOKBINDINGS. Set of 7 titles in 10 volumes. Description: -ORONCE DE BRIANVILLE. A Methodical Summary of the History of France… (Paris, 17th century). 17th-century havana calfskin with a ribbed spine (bleached; the title page is missing and has been replaced by a handwritten page). Dedicated to His Grace the Dauphin, with an allegorical vignette by Le Clerc and a large allegorical engraved frontispiece bearing the Dauphin’s coat of arms. Numerous half-page etched busts. Provenance: Mr. Devilliers À LA NOUE; ex libris engraved with coat of arms and motto -FENELON. The Adventures of Telemachus, Son of Ulysses. Paris: Ancelle, 1798. 2 vols. in-8, full contemporary fawn-colored marbled sheepskin. -PEREZ, Antonio. *Institutiones imperiales, erotematibus distinctae, atque ex ipsis principiis regulisque Iuris, passim insertis, explicatae*. Vesaliae, published by Andreas ab Higenhuysen, 1670. 12mo, fawn-colored sheepskin with speckled back. Old handwritten ex-libris crossed out; title page restored. -SAINT-LAMBERT. Les Saisons, a poem. Seventh edition. Amsterdam, 1775. In-8, full fawn sheepskin marbled in the period style. Provenance: from the library of Mr. Devilliers at La Noue. -TASSO, Torquato. LE TASSE. Aminta Favola Boscareccia. London, 1780. In-12, full fawn speckled sheepskin of the period. A frontispiece title page by Joan Lapi, engraved on copper by himself, and 5 plates by Joan and Giovanni Lapi. -THEATRE BY M. DE FLORIAN. Paris: Didot the Elder, 1786. Second edition. 3 volumes, in-16, in contemporary speckled calf. Includes engravings as inserts. Included: VALENTIN, F. A Summary of the History of the Crusades (1095–1291). Third edition. Tours, Ad Mame et Cie, 1841. In-12, in a romantic blue sheepskin binding of the period.