[Arms]. GREGORY OF TOURS and MAROLLES (Michel de). History o - Lot 221

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[Arms]. GREGORY OF TOURS and MAROLLES (Michel de). History o - Lot 221
[Arms]. GREGORY OF TOURS and MAROLLES (Michel de). History of the French by St. Gregory, Bishop of Tours, who lived nearly eleven hundred years ago. With the Supplement by Frédégaire, written at the behest of Childebrand, brother of Charles Martel. Translated by M. de Marolles, Abbot of Villeloin, with notes. [- The second part of the Histories of St. Gregory […] containing his books on the Glory of the Martyrs and Confessors, along with the four books on the Life of St. Martin, and that on the Life of the Fathers.] Paris, Frédéric Léonard, 1668. 2 vols. in-8°, [16], 876, [40] pp.; [64], 723, [21] pp. Speckled fawn calfskin, spine with 5 raised bands, title page in fawn morocco, volume pages in havana morocco, gilt coat of arms on the covers, gilt scroll on the edges, edges speckled with red. (Contemporary binding). Bearing the coat of arms of the Duke of RICHELIEU (1696–1788), Peer and Marshal of France. Stamp “ex bibliotheca domus pariensis.” Goldsmith, G-715; Brunet, II, 1730. Coat of arms: Guigard, II, 412. Very slight flaws in the binding; a fine copy. The portrait engraving is missing.
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