SAINTE MARTHE (Dom Denis de). Lot n° 19

Histoire de S. Grégoire le Grand, Pape et Docteur de l'Eglise; tirée principalement de ses ouvrages. Rouen, Veuve Louis Behourt et Guillaume Behourt, 1697. In-4 marbled calf, spine with ornamented nerves, title page, royal arms in medallion covered with blue paint, figures in spandrels on the boards, red tr. (post. binding end of XVIIIth c.). Prize sheet of the college of Montargis (1772). Beautiful portrait in frontispiece. Spellings. Copy with the arms (here covered, probably at the Revolution) of Louis Philippe I, DUC D'ORLEANS (1725-1785) for the college of Montargis (""This prince had his arms stamped on the books he gave as prizes to the college of the Barnabites of Montargis, but the volumes thus offered are distinguished from those belonging to the Duke of Orleans in that they bear at the corners the figure of the college formed by the intertwined capitals C and B"" OHR 2572, iron n°4)