LESZCZYNSKA (Marie). - L'Office de la Semaine Sainte, en latin et en françois. According to the Roman missal and breviary, the new Paris missal breviary [...]. Dedicated to the Queen, for the use of her Household. À Paris, chez Jean-Baptiste Garnier, imprimeur-libraire ordinaire de la reine, de madame la Dauphine, 1752. In-8, (4)-xlviii-852 pp, red morocco, cloisonné ribbed spine, wide gilded decoration on the boards with gilded coat of arms in the center and two gilded "M" numerals in medallions, repetition of this decoration in the spine entrenerfs with fleurs-de-lis, ornate coupes, inner gilded roulette, gilded paper lining and endpapers stamped in colors, gilded edges; coat-of-arms on first board slightly misaligned with gilding, fleur-de-lis on spine hammered during the Revolution, edges and headpieces slightly rubbed (contemporary binding). 1.200/1.500
Copper-engraved illustration: 3 plates out of text and a vignette in the text.
EXEMPLAIRE EN MAROQUIN AUX ARMES DE LA REINE MARIE LESCZYNSKA (OHR, pl. n° 2507, fer n° 1 ; chiffre "M" non répertoriée).
FINE BINDING DECORATED WITH FANFARE.
Provenance: Commandant de La Chapelle (armorial vignette, modern bookplate).
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