[MESLIN] - Lot 68

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[MESLIN] - Lot 68
[MESLIN] Mémoires historiques concernant l'ordre royal et militaire de Saint-Louis, et l'institution du mérite militaire. Paris, De l'Imprimerie royale, 1785. In-4, red morocco, large lace on the covers, smooth spine decorated, small cross of the Order repeated in the center of the caissons which are decorated with a fleur-de-lis in the corners, green title page, interior roulette, gilt edges (Binding of the time). Very useful work for the official acts of the Order, created in 1693 by Louis XIV, and the service records of the different commanders and officers. Bernard, in his Histoire de l'Imprimerie royale, p. 227, indicates that the work first appeared in 1784 but that the edition was suppressed and the second one interrupted, without giving further details. A comparison of this copy with another reveals that there are two editions of the 1785 edition: in the present edition, which appears to be the first, the title page does not contain the epigraph from Horace, p. V of the preface is not "corrected", and there are no tables outside the text. In this copy, the article les before the word Souverains (p. V, 12th line) is corrected in pen in Nos, in accordance with the modification made in the other edition. A fine copy in a magnificent lace binding, decorated on the back with fleurs-de-lis and the repeated cross of St. Louis. Some light foxing. Crack to one of the spines.
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