LABBEY DE BILLY (Nicolas-Antoine). History of the - Lot 130

LABBEY DE BILLY (Nicolas-Antoine). History of the the University of the County of Burgundy and the various subjects l'honneur; pour faire suite aux ouvrages historiques de M. Dunod. [Besançon, C.-F. Mourgeon, 1814]. 2 vol. in-4° of 497, [3] pp. ; 497 pp. Black half-chagrin with corners, spine with 4 faux-nerfs, gilt title (Second half 19th c.) Sought-after first edition. Reused title pages on 2 volumes: Paris, F. Scherff, Treuttel et Wurtz, no date. The historian Nicolas-Antoine LABBEY DE BILLY (1753-1825) was preacher in Versailles (1786), then a member of the Besançon commune (1790); he refused to take the ecclesiastical oath and went into exile. returned to France in 1809, where he became professor of history at the Faculté des lettres de Besançon. Genealogical work of more than 320 families of the rectors and students who passed through this university, i.e. almost the entire the nobility and upper middle classes of the Franche-Comté region. Pierre André PIDOUX DE LA MADUERE's copy, with its engraved ex annotated (in the margins or on loose leaves), corrected and enriched with enriched with numerous documents: L. A. S. ANDELOT, 1637, addressed to a mademoiselle in Dole; L. A. S. MAYROT to M. de TALLENAY, Paris, 1829; MAIRE de BOULIGNEY l'aîné, (receipt), Besançon, 1820; Auguste Marquis de TALLENAY (power of attorney as godfather given to his brother for the baptism of his goddaughter), Stockholm, 1830; Luc MARQUIS (copy of will testament of August 15, 1749), Besançon, August 21, 1750; Nicolas MARQUIS ("Original Codicile olographe de Messire Nicolas Marquis professeur es droits en l'université de besançon Mon tres cher et tres honoré père") Besançon, October 22, 1747, followed by the holograph will, Besançon, December 25 1747; followed by Luc MARQUIS's autographed copy of his father's will testament, Besançon, August 15, 1749; TINSEAU (signed document), Besançon, March 6, 1760). In addition, nearly 500 painted coats of arms have been laminated in the margins and captioned in ink (20th c.). Binding restored, interior fresh; modern bookplate. A unique copy.