Lot 4527
  • 4527

[Helyot, Pierre (1660-1716) and Maximilien Bullot (d. 1748).

Estimate
500 - 700 GBP
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Description

  • Histoire des ordres monastiques, religieux et militaires, et des congregations séculiè de l'un et de l'autre sexe. Paris: Nicolas Gosselin (Jean-Baptiste Coignard), 1714-1719
first edition, 8 volumes, 4to (252 x 186mm.), xcviii, [6], 399, [25]; [8], 436, [32]; xvi, [8], 456, [48]; [8], 464, [42]; [8 (last 2 blank)], 488, [20]; [8], 446, [26]; [8], 493, [35]; [8], 446, [38]pp., title-pages printed in red and black, illustration: woodcut vignette on title-pages, 810 engraved plates by Duflos, Giffart, de Poilly and Thomassin (including an additional plate in volume 7 numbered 99), woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, binding: contemporary speckled calf, spines gilt in compartments, lacking 1 engraved plate (no. 23 in volume 1),  pl. 40 (volume 1) misbound in volume 2, some light offsetting, plates in a few volumes lightly browned  

Literature

Colas 1417; Lipperheide 1846; Cohen-de Ricci 480

Condition

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate
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