L'Office de la Semaine Sainte .... à l'usage de Rome et de Paris. Paris: 1752. 8°, contemporary red morocco by P-P Dubuisson, stamped in gilt with an elaborate plaque, arms in the center of Marie-Adélaïde de France, fourth daughter and sixth child of Louis XV, spine with repeated geometrical tooling surrounding a centrally-placed fleur-de-lys (lightly rubbed). Gruel, Manuel II, p. 68. With the 1741 edition of the same work with armorial binding of Louis XV (worn at corners). (4)

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L'Office de la Semaine Sainte .... à l'usage de Rome et de Paris. Paris: 1752. 8°, contemporary red morocco by P-P Dubuisson, stamped in gilt with an elaborate plaque, arms in the center of Marie-Adélaïde de France, fourth daughter and sixth child of Louis XV, spine with repeated geometrical tooling surrounding a centrally-placed fleur-de-lys (lightly rubbed). Gruel, Manuel II, p. 68. With the 1741 edition of the same work with armorial binding of Louis XV (worn at corners). (4)

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Contains 2 additional books, one in a green morocco armorial binding [Olivier Fer XV, 1557], the other bound in crimson morocco by Thouvenin. There is therefore a total of 4 volumes in the lot, and the estimate has been increased to £600-800.

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