MORAND, Sauveur-Jérôme - Lot 117

MORAND, Sauveur-Jérôme Histoire de la Sainte-Chapelle Royale du Palais, enrichie de planches... presented to the Assemblée-Nationale by the Author Paris, Clousier et Prault, 1790 LA SAINTE-CHAPELLE ET SES TRÉSORS: INVENTAIRE ILLUSTRÉ DES TRÉSORS DE L'UN DES PLUS CÉLÈBRES MONUMENTS DE L'HISTOIRE DE FRANCE À LA VEILLE DES CONFISCATIONS RÉVOLUTIONNAIRES. SUPERB EXEMPLAIRE BOUND BY BOZERIAN IN RED MAROQUIN ORIGINAL AND UNIQUE EDITION In-4 (248 x 190mm). Woodcut vignette printed on the title page, engraved head and tailpieces. PRINTING: one of the few copies printed on very fine laid paper, according to a remark by Brunet, who says "l'ouvrage devenu rare, l'édition ayant été en partie détruite". COLLATION: 3 ff. n. o.c., 307-218 pp. and [6] ff. n. o.c. privilege and tables ILLUSTRATION: frontispiece and 16 plates drawn and engraved by Nicolas Ransonnette, ordinary engraver to the Duc d'Orléans, including two plans and several folding plates, for a total of 17 plates. ANNOTATION: handwritten note in red ink suggesting a form of alphabetical codification, p. 8 CONTEMPORARY BINDING SIGNED BY BOZERIAN. Red morocco, gilt decoration, framing roulette, highly ornate gilt ribbed spine, gilt edges. PROVENANCE : Count René de Galard de Béarn (bookplate; his sale, 1923, IV, no. 14) BIBLIOGRAPHY: Brunet, III, col. 1888 -- Jannic Durand and Marie-Pierre Laffitte (dir.), Le Trésor de la Sainte-Chapelle, Paris, 2001