LE CLERC - Lot 55

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LE CLERC - Lot 55
LE CLERC La Vie d'Armand Jean cardinal duc de Richelieu, principal minister of state, under Louis XIII. Amsterdam, Aux dépens de la Compagnie, 1714. 2 volumes in-12, red morocco, double gilt fillet, smooth spine decorated with three pieces of brown-olive morocco, gilt odds on tail, inner lace, gilt edges on marble (Binding of the time). Third edition, decorated with a copper-engraved portrait of Richelieu, placed at the head of each volume, and with a folding map of the siege of La Rochelle (1627-1628) which was one of the cardinal's feats of arms. A fine copy from the Lamoignon library, made by Anguerrand, the official bookbinder of President Lamoignon. It bears the storage label of the Bibliotheca Lamoniana, the handwritten mark on the endpapers and the wet stamp on pages 3. From the library of Professor Jacques Millot (1975, n°362).
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