Heauville (Louis Le Bourgeois, sieur d'). Catechisme en vers, dédié à Monseigneur le Dauphin, 1st edition, Paris: Frédéric Leonard, Impr[imeur] du Roy, 1669, [14] 131 [9] pp., engraved arms to title-page, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials, slightly browned, a few marks, gift inscription to initial blank ('Pour Mademoiselle le Vaché, donné à Mlle Mordieu, il lui apartient [sic]'), contemporary red goatskin gilt, French royal arms to covers within French fillet frames gilt, wear to joints and tips, joints cracked at ends, 12mo signed in alternate fours and eights (13.2 x 7.4 cm) (Qty: 1) Provenance: 1) Eugène Viollet-le-Duc (1814-1879), with his book-label 'Ex libris Viollet Le Duc' to front pastedown, and doubtless the same copy as that described in Viollet-le-Duc's catalogue of his library, Catalogue des livres composant la Bibliothèque poétique de M. Viollet-le-Duc (1843, p. 574). 2) Hester Swift (modern bookplate). 3) Malcolm Rogers CBE FSA (1948-), British art historian and director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston from 1994 to 2015. The author is described on the title-page as the abbé de Chantemerle.
Heauville (Louis Le Bourgeois, sieur d'). Catechisme en vers, dédié à Monseigneur le Dauphin, 1st edition, Paris: Frédéric Leonard, Impr[imeur] du Roy, 1669, [14] 131 [9] pp., engraved arms to title-page, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials, slightly browned, a few marks, gift inscription to initial blank ('Pour Mademoiselle le Vaché, donné à Mlle Mordieu, il lui apartient [sic]'), contemporary red goatskin gilt, French royal arms to covers within French fillet frames gilt, wear to joints and tips, joints cracked at ends, 12mo signed in alternate fours and eights (13.2 x 7.4 cm) (Qty: 1) Provenance: 1) Eugène Viollet-le-Duc (1814-1879), with his book-label 'Ex libris Viollet Le Duc' to front pastedown, and doubtless the same copy as that described in Viollet-le-Duc's catalogue of his library, Catalogue des livres composant la Bibliothèque poétique de M. Viollet-le-Duc (1843, p. 574). 2) Hester Swift (modern bookplate). 3) Malcolm Rogers CBE FSA (1948-), British art historian and director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston from 1994 to 2015. The author is described on the title-page as the abbé de Chantemerle.
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