MAROQUIN - OFFICE MAISON ROYALE DE SAINT-CYR Hours,... Lot 9

[MAROQUIN - OFFICE MAISON ROYALE DE SAINT-CYR] Hours, Prayers and Offices for the use and devotions, especially of the Demoiselles de la Maison Royale de Saint-Louis à Saint-Cyr. Paris, Hérissant, 1769. In-12 contemporary red morocco, spine with 5 ornate nerves, triple gilt fillet framing the covers, gilt corner fleurons, gilt fillet on the edges, gilt inner border, blue endpapers, gilt edges. A pencil note on the first endpaper indicates Derome as bookbinder. [8] ff. including double frontispiece (different views of the Chapel of Saint-Cyr), title, approval, calendar and frontispiece with Christ on the cross, 474 pp. and [1] f. table. Binding slightly rubbed, one corner dulled, some foxing, notably at the beginning and end of the work. [GRIFFET Father Exercise of piety for the Communion. Paris, Desaint, 1766. In-12 red morocco of the time, spine with 5 ornamented nerves, triple gilt fillet on the boards, gilt corner fleurons, gilt fillet on the edges, gilt inner scroll, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Xii pp. including title, 369 pp. Boards slightly rubbed, corners dulled. Slight marginal foxing. That is 2 volumes.