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FEUQUIÈRES, Antoine de Pas.
Mémoires sur la guerre, escrits par feu M. le Marquis de Feuquières, Lieutenant général des armées du Roi, pour l'instruction de son fils. 1735. 2 vol. in-12. Full contemporary fawn calf, arms in the centre of the boards, double gilt fillet in the frame, spine ribbed and decorated with the irons of the coat of arms, red morocco title-pieces and green morocco tomes.
Second edition. First two volumes. Lacks the third volume.
Small marginal wetness to the first leaves of volume II. Discoloured band on the lower cover of volume I, worm hole at the top of the lower spine of volume II.
Attached :
- Histoire d'Alexandre le Grand, tirée d'Adrian, Plutarque, Justin, Jospeh, Quinte-Curce, & Freinshemius. Paris, Compagnie des libraires, 1697. 1 vol. in-12. Contemporary calf, gilt arms in the centre of the boards, spine gilt, tan morocco title-piece. Binding rubbed. Cracks in the spines, lack of headbands.
Engraved frontispiece by Chaussieu. Copies with the arms of the Countess of Verrue, Jeanne-Baptiste d'Albert de Luynes. She married the Duke of Savoy for the second time, then, having returned to Paris, opened her hotel in the rue du Cherche-midi to intellectuals, writers and philosophers. "The Countess de Verrue was passionately fond of letters and the arts (...) She collected everything beautiful. Her library contained 18,000 choice books."
O.H.R. pl. 799, n°1.
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