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L'Office de la Semaine Sainte, selon le Messel & Breuiaire Romain, translated by M. de Marolles. Paris: la Compagnie des Libraires, 1662.
8° (187 x 120mm). Roman and italic type, double column. Pages ruled in red. 4 engravings in the text and 7 etchings by Jacques Callot inserted. (Occasional light spotting.) Contemporary French red morocco gilt, sides with the arms of Marie-Thérèse d'Autriche [Olivier 2506, fer 1] at centre on a semé of her crowned cipher alternating with a fleur-de-lis, marbled pastedowns, g.e. Provenance: Marie-Thérèse of Austria (1638-1683), queen of Louis XIV (binding); "Bernard" on title (17th-century); Hans Fürstenberg (booklabel).
A splendid royal binding from the library of Marie-Thérèse, queen of Louis XIV. It is possible that this book was bound by Pierre Rocolet, one of the Compagnie des Libraires. Esmerian (II, p.47) identified him as binding for Mazarin and other French noblemen and women, and connected him with the shop of Antoine Padeloup, but his activity as a binder has been questioned in the Walters Art Gallery, The History of Bookbinding (no.395, a binding for Anne of Austria). The plates which are inserted are from Callot's small Passion series. He had begun a large Passion series in 1618 but never completed more than 7 subjects before abandoning the large, horizontal format for the small vertical format in 1624. Interestingly, another copy of the 1662 L'Office, bound for Anne of Austria, Marie-Thérèse's aunt and mother-in-law, also contained inserted plates from this series (Aboussouan sale, Sotheby's 18 June 1993, lot 127). Lieure, Callot, 537.
8° (187 x 120mm). Roman and italic type, double column. Pages ruled in red. 4 engravings in the text and 7 etchings by Jacques Callot inserted. (Occasional light spotting.) Contemporary French red morocco gilt, sides with the arms of Marie-Thérèse d'Autriche [Olivier 2506, fer 1] at centre on a semé of her crowned cipher alternating with a fleur-de-lis, marbled pastedowns, g.e. Provenance: Marie-Thérèse of Austria (1638-1683), queen of Louis XIV (binding); "Bernard" on title (17th-century); Hans Fürstenberg (booklabel).
A splendid royal binding from the library of Marie-Thérèse, queen of Louis XIV. It is possible that this book was bound by Pierre Rocolet, one of the Compagnie des Libraires. Esmerian (II, p.47) identified him as binding for Mazarin and other French noblemen and women, and connected him with the shop of Antoine Padeloup, but his activity as a binder has been questioned in the Walters Art Gallery, The History of Bookbinding (no.395, a binding for Anne of Austria). The plates which are inserted are from Callot's small Passion series. He had begun a large Passion series in 1618 but never completed more than 7 subjects before abandoning the large, horizontal format for the small vertical format in 1624. Interestingly, another copy of the 1662 L'Office, bound for Anne of Austria, Marie-Thérèse's aunt and mother-in-law, also contained inserted plates from this series (Aboussouan sale, Sotheby's 18 June 1993, lot 127). Lieure, Callot, 537.