REVEL (Charles) and GUICHENON (Samuel): Usages... Lot 1

REVEL (Charles) and GUICHENON (Samuel): Usages des pays de Bresse, Bugey et Gex. Their statutes, stil & edicts, divided into two parts. Bourg-en-Bresse, Jean-Baptiste Besson, 1760-75. Two volumes. 24 by 38 cm. [4]-246-[2]-178-[26]-10-[2]-315-(11); (2)-317 to 712-236-(4)-36 pages. Full contemporary shagreen, spine with six raised bands, ornamented boards, red title page. Binding with small defects (two headpieces faded, leather missing at one corner, some spotting on the boards, worn tomatillo parts, a stain on a corner). Some light spotting in the book, not serious, some leaves slightly darkened. Published more than a century after the original edition, this edition is the most complete, as it contains among others the statutes of Savoy, the history of Bresse and Bugey by Samuel Guichenon, a notice on the country of Gex, etc., the documents presented going back to the year 1775.