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- Lot 86
OFFICE OF THE HOLY WEEK (The), for the use of Rome and Paris. In Latin & in French. With an explanation of the ceremonies of the Church, and instructions, prayers and short reflections on the mysteries and offices celebrated during Holy Week. By Monsieur l'Abbé de Bellegarde. Paris : printing house of Jacques Collombat, 1732. - In-8, 215 x 139 : frontispiece, title, xx, 654 pp. and (1 f.), 4 plates. Red morocco, framed with a foliage scroll, and a large plate with a fanfare decorated with large dotted irons, the figure and the royal coat of arms in the center on the boards, spine decorated with nerves, inner gilt scroll, gilt edges (period binding). Edition illustrated with an unsigned frontispiece and engraved title, as well as 4 plates engraved by Jean-Baptiste Scotin after compositions by Antoine Humblot (16..-1758). A fully set copy, in a plate binding with the fanfare "of the last type", with the arms and the figure of Louis XV. This is one of the last ancient appearances of this decoration which was very popular for three centuries, before the revival brought by Thouvenin. Hinge of the first plate cracked, small lack of the upper jaw, lack of the head cap, a dull corner. Restoration to the lower cover and the edges of the boards.
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