Christie’s roundel
Lot 292

[LAFAYETTE, Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, comtessse de (1634-1693)] and Jean-Regnauld DE SEGRAIS (1624-1701). Zayde, histoire espagnole. Suivant la copie imprimée à Paris [Holland, Elzevier]: 1671. 2 parts, small 8° (153 x 81mm). Engraved frontispiece, woodcut title device and initials. Pretty pale blue morocco gilt by Chambolle-Duru, 1865, gilt edges. Provenance: bought from Giraud, 1932. Brunet III, 743; Willems 1861.

Closed20 March 2013

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GBP 2,125

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[LAFAYETTE, Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, comtessse de (1634-1693)] and Jean-Regnauld DE SEGRAIS (1624-1701). Zayde, histoire espagnole. Suivant la copie imprimée à Paris [Holland, Elzevier]: 1671. 2 parts, small 8° (153 x 81mm). Engraved frontispiece, woodcut title device and initials. Pretty pale blue morocco gilt by Chambolle-Duru, 1865, gilt edges. Provenance: bought from Giraud, 1932. Brunet III, 743; Willems 1861.

Togther with 11 other small volumes, the majority attractively rebound in 19th-century morocco gilt, some with an important ex libris, including De Backer, Firmin-Didot, P. Grandsire, Bibliothèque de Marly, Marigues de Champ Repus, and Noilly. (12)