Lot 51
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NODOT, FRANÇOIS. Histoire de Melusine, Princesse de Lusignan, & de ses Fils, [with the suite:] Histoire de Geofroy, surnommé a la Grand' Dent, sixième fils de Melusine, Paris: la Veuve de Claude Barbin, 1700, two parts in one vol.--LE NOBLE, EUSTACHE. Les Avantures Provinciales. Le Voyage de Falaize, Paris: Michel David, 1707, 2 vols. in one, 12mo, contemporary dark olive green morocco, covers with triple gilt fillet border and gilt arms of the Comtesse de Verrue, spine gilt, red morocco lettering-pieces, marbled and gilt edges, scratch on upper cover, minor rubbing to corners and head and tail of spine. Brunet III, 121.

Details
NODOT, FRANÇOIS. Histoire de Melusine, Princesse de Lusignan, & de ses Fils, [with the suite:] Histoire de Geofroy, surnommé a la Grand' Dent, sixième fils de Melusine, Paris: la Veuve de Claude Barbin, 1700, two parts in one vol.--LE NOBLE, EUSTACHE. Les Avantures Provinciales. Le Voyage de Falaize, Paris: Michel David, 1707, 2 vols. in one, 12mo, contemporary dark olive green morocco, covers with triple gilt fillet border and gilt arms of the Comtesse de Verrue, spine gilt, red morocco lettering-pieces, marbled and gilt edges, scratch on upper cover, minor rubbing to corners and head and tail of spine. Brunet III, 121.
Provenance
1.Jeanne-Baptiste d'Albert de Luynes, Comtesse de Verrue (1670-1736), armorial binding. The Countess de Verrue amassed a library of "18,000 volumes d'un choix exquis" (Guigard, 206-7); her collection of novels and plays was particularly outstanding.
2. Laurent Currie, nineteenth-century bookplate.