BIBLE. - Jeremie, traduit en françois ; avec une explication - Lot 47

BIBLE. - Jeremie, traduit en françois ; avec une explication tirée des Saints Pères & des Autheurs Ecclésiastiques. [Followed by: Baruch]. Paris, Guillaume Desprez, 1690. In-8, red morocco, small gilt crowned coat of arms in the center and corners of the boards, ribbed spine decorated with the same repeated coat of arms, interior roulette, gilt edges (Period binding). Part of a Bible published by Guillaume Desprez, this one including the two canonical books of Jeremiah and Baruch in the translation of Isaac Le Maistre de Sacy. Attractive woodcut vignette at the head of the first book. Fine copy, bearing the arms of Paule-Françoise-Marguerite de Gondi de Retz (1655-1716), duchesse de Lesdiguières. Daughter of Pierre de Gondi (1602-1676), General of the French Galleys, and niece of Cardinal de Retz, Paule de Gondi married the Duc de Lesdiguières, and was widowed in 1688. In her hotel on rue de la Cerisaie, near the Arsenal, she possessed a library of well-chosen books, but apparently in small numbers, as few of them can be found today that belonged to her, writes Quentin Bauchart in Femmes bibliophiles de France (t. I, pp. 361-368); he continues: They are very elegantly bound, almost always in red morocco, and have for all external decoration only the crossed masses of the Gondi family, surmounted by the ducal crown, and repeated five times on the spine and each of the covers. Their binding is excellent and very solid, and can be attributed to Du Seuil (see also Guigard, Armorial du bibliophile, I, pp. 240-241).