Reunion of bound books including: - Lot 2

Reunion of bound books including: - AGUESSEAU, Chancelier d' - Discours de Monsieur le Chancelier d'Aguesseau. Paris, Vve Savoye, 1773. In-12, 364 pp. in contemporary bas. marbled boards, triple gilt thread on covers, coat of arms in center, spine ribbed and decorated, upper headband worn. OHR pl. 1590. Coat of arms of the Collège d'Alençon: two adjacent shields, in one, the arms of the Bourbon-Alençon family (three fleurs-de-lis, with a border charged with eight besans); in the other, the eagle of the city of Alençon. In 1774, Louis Stanislas Xavier de France (future King Louis XVIII) took the title of Duke of Alençon. Ex-praemio on title page dated August 1778. - WESEL, Abraham van - Tractatus de Remissione Mercedis propter Bellum, Inundationem aquarum, & Sterilitatem. Amsterdam, Henri & Théodore Boom, 1675. In-12, (13) ff, 166 pp, (8) ff, contemporary brown marbled calf, coats of arms in center of boards, spine ribbed and ornamented, covers missing. First edition. Wesel (1633-1680) was a councillor at the Court of Viane in the seigneury of Utrecht and a tax lawyer at the Sovereign Council of the province of Utrecht. This work was written on the occasion of an ordinance published by the States of Utrecht in 1674, concerning the misery caused in the country by the war of 1672. With the coat of arms of Lefèvre de Caumartin (1653-1720) Intendant des Finances and Conseiller d'Etat (O-H-R 651 fer n°5). He left a remarkable library, both in terms of the choice of books and the beauty of the bindings. - BOSSUET - Conférence avec M. Claude, Ministre de Charenton, sur la matière de l'Eglise. 2nd ed. Paris, Vve de Sébastien Mabre-Cramoisy, 1687. Pet. in-12, (22) ff, 504 pp, (1) f., paper a little yellowed, brown granite calf, coat of arms in the center of the boards, spine ribbed and decorated, top cap shaved. Bossuet relies here on the principle of authority in response to Jurieu, Larroque, d'Haisseau, Mainbourg, Nicole: "It is not a question of directly establishing the Roman Church, but only of showing that there is a true Church, whatever it may be, to which we must submit, without examining after it." Unidentified arms of a contemporary abbot. - DESPREZ DE BOISSY, Charles] - Lettres de M. Desp. de B*, Avocat au Parlement, sur les spectacles ; avec une Histoire des Ouvrages pour & contre les Théâtres. 4th ed. Paris, Butard, 1771. 2 parts in 2 vols. in-12, XVI, 694 pp, (2) ff, fawn marbled calf, coats of arms on boards, spine ribbed and ornamented, upper cuff frayed. Fourth edition much enlarged since the original in 1759; seven editions published, despite the severe judgment of the Correspondance littéraire Grimm-Diderot, IV, 104. One of the most virulent attacks on theater shortly before Rousseau's. With the arms of the University of Paris (Bibliothèque de la Sorbonne) (v. OHR 1596, irons n°4 and 5: book held by one hand - two goose feathers in saltire). The library was opened to the public in 1762 by Gabriel Petit de Montempuis. - CLEMENT, Denis-Xavier - Maximes pour se conduire chrétiennement dans le monde. Nouv. éd., rev. et augm. de l'Éloge historique de feue Madame Henriette de France. Paris, H.-L. Guérin, 1753. In-12, VIII, 390 pp, (2) ff, fawn marbled calf, coats of arms in the center of the boards, spine ribbed and decorated. Henriette de France, daughter of King Louis XV, had died the previous year. With the coat of arms of Adélaïde-Marie de la Croix de Castries, Marquise de Mailly, born in 1749. In 1767, she married Alexandre-Louis, marquis de Mailly, maréchal de camp and governor of Montlouis (O-H-R pl. 2046).