![ARMORIAL BINDING -- GRAZIANI, Antoine Maria (1537-1611). De casibus virorum illustrium, edited by Esprit Fléchier. Paris: A. Cellier, 1680. 4° (250 x 180mm), engraved headpiece and initial, woodcut tailpieces. CONTEMPORARY FRENCH RED MOROCCO WITH ARMS OF CHARLES DE SAINTE-MAURE, DUC DE MONTAUSIER AND HIS WIFE JULIE-LUCIE D'ANGENNES DE RAMBOUILLET [Olivier 451 fer 1], their crowned cypher with palmleaves as cornerpieces [fer 3] and repeated in compartments of spine, gilt edges. Provenance: Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier (binding).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2005/CSK/2005_CSK_05625_0094_000(100225).jpg?w=1)
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ARMORIAL BINDING -- GRAZIANI, Antoine Maria (1537-1611). De casibus virorum illustrium, edited by Esprit Fléchier. Paris: A. Cellier, 1680. 4° (250 x 180mm), engraved headpiece and initial, woodcut tailpieces. CONTEMPORARY FRENCH RED MOROCCO WITH ARMS OF CHARLES DE SAINTE-MAURE, DUC DE MONTAUSIER AND HIS WIFE JULIE-LUCIE D'ANGENNES DE RAMBOUILLET [Olivier 451 fer 1], their crowned cypher with palmleaves as cornerpieces [fer 3] and repeated in compartments of spine, gilt edges. Provenance: Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier (binding).
This binding commemorates a great romantic love story. Charles de Sainte-Maure courted Julie-Lucie d'Angennes for twelve years before she agreed to marry him in 1645, and he wrote for her the famous Guirlande de Julie, the manuscript magnificently written and illuminated by Nicholas Jarry. She died in 1671, but the Duke continued to use their joint arms and monogram on his bindings. This work by Graziani is a collection of biographical essays on Cesare Borgia, Henry VIII, John Fisher and Thomas More, etc., and remained unpublished until it was edited by Fléchier. FIRST EDITION. Tchemerzine V, 255.
SEE PLATE I.
This binding commemorates a great romantic love story. Charles de Sainte-Maure courted Julie-Lucie d'Angennes for twelve years before she agreed to marry him in 1645, and he wrote for her the famous Guirlande de Julie, the manuscript magnificently written and illuminated by Nicholas Jarry. She died in 1671, but the Duke continued to use their joint arms and monogram on his bindings. This work by Graziani is a collection of biographical essays on Cesare Borgia, Henry VIII, John Fisher and Thomas More, etc., and remained unpublished until it was edited by Fléchier. FIRST EDITION. Tchemerzine V, 255.
SEE PLATE I.
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