Live auction - Lot 1422
[Hagiography - Brittany]
Les vies des Saints de Bretagne, et des personnes d'une éminente piété qui ont vêcu dans la même province, avec une addition à l'Histoire de Bretagne. Enrichi de figures en taille-douce.
Rennes, "par la Compagnie des imprimeurs" (by P.-A. Garnier), 1725
€ 200 / 300
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Lot description
Folio: [2]-5/12-16-576 pp.; 3 pl. (pp. 1-4 missing; sl. spotting or soiling, occ. ff. sl. age-toned, last ff. loosening).
Contemp. sheep, covers orn. with a central gilt medallion with initials "IHS" ruled with gilt roll-stamps and fillet, gilt. orn. spine with raised bands, marbled edges (rubbed, ink stains).
Biographies of the Saints of Brittany and other devout people, illustrated with 3 plates showing portraits of some of them (1st: 1723, 8vo; 1st folio ed.: 1724). By Lobineau (1666-1727), better known as Dom Lobineau, Benedictine monk from the Congregation of St. Maur. Text in 2 col.; coat of arms of Brittany on title.