[ROYAL BINDING] L’Office de la Semaine Sainte, Latin et François, a l’usage de Rome et de Paris.

A$2,500 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Avec l explication des Cérémonies de l Eglise, et quelques Prieres tirées de l Ecriture, pour la Confession la Communion, sur les mystères que l on célèbre durant ce saint temps . Paris : chez Gregoire Dupuis, rue Saint Jacques, à la Couronne d or, 1731. Nouvelle edition . Octavo, original royal binding of full red calf (rubbed and lightly marked), upper and lower boards with gilt arms of Louis XV, elaborate gilt borders, richly gilt spine in six compartments, gilt dentelles; all edges gilt, original marbled endpapers; title-page with discreet private collection stamp with monogram KL (?), pp [6], xxxii, 659, [5], rear blank leaf; woodcut initial, head- and tailpieces; text in French and Latin, in double columns; occasional light foxing and browning, binding firm, a very good example. Printed avec Privilege du Roy , and in a royal binding bearing the coat of arms in gilt of Louis XV (1710-1774). Procedures for the observance of Holy Week (preceding Easter).

• Binding: Hardcover

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