Binding.- Aurelius Victor (Sextus) Historiae Romanae breviarium, from Louis XIV's library, Leiden & Amsterdam, Gaesbeeck, 1670.

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Binding.- Aurelius Victor (Sextus) Historiae Romanae breviarium, half-title, additional engraved title, engraved illustrations, occasional foxing and soiling, contemporary black morocco with repeating motif of Louis XIV's crowned "L" monogram and fleur de lys on covers within double gilt fillet, spine with similar decoration in compartments, rubbed, some cracking and repairs to joints, 8vo, Leiden & Amsterdam, Gaesbeeck, 1670. *** Phil Pirages has a similarly bound copy of Office de la Semaine Sainte, 1683 (in red morocco) which he says is either from the Lamoignon family or, as we suggest, from Louis XIV's royal library.

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