[LEBOEUF DE VALDAHON - Armorial Binding]. [POULLAIN DE SAINT - Lot 51

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[LEBOEUF DE VALDAHON - Armorial Binding]. [POULLAIN DE SAINT - Lot 51
[LEBOEUF DE VALDAHON - Armorial Binding]. [POULLAIN DE SAINT-FOIX, Germain-François. Historical essays on Paris. Fourth edition, revised, corrected and enlarged. Volume one [- fifth], Paris, Chez la Veuve Duchesne, 1766. 5 vol. in-12 of 370 p., engraved portrait of the author in frontispiece (volume I); 336 p. (volume II) ; 375 p. (volume III) ; 236 p. (volume IV) ; 330 p. 1f. (volume V). Full contemporary marbled calf decorated on each plate with the arms. Smooth spine decorated with a title and a tome, flowered caissons with gilt irons. Threaded ends, red edges. Bindings in the state of the book: jaws cracked (the boards weakened, the first of the fifth volume flying). Spines cracked, leather cracked on spines, corners and edges of boards rubbed. Missing the title page of volume one. Interior a little yellowed with light and fine foxing on some pages, angular tear on the leaf of pages 27-28 of volume two, not serious for the text. Blue ink stains in the margins of the first 20 pages of volume five (without affecting the text). Franc-Comtoise Provenance: On the arms of the Marquis Jacques-Marie Leboeuf de Valdahon: Quarterly: on 1 and 4, azure a chevron Or, charged with three eaglets Sable (Leboeuf); on 2 and 3, Gules three greyhound's heads Argent, collared Sable, buckled and crowned Or (Sordet). O. H. R., IV, pl. 371; Thiébaud, J. M. Les marquis en Franche-Comté, p.109; R. de Lurion. Nobiliaire de Franche-Comté, p. 103-104.
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