HENAULT (Charles-Jean-François): Nouvel Abrégé chronologique - Lot 150

HENAULT (Charles-Jean-François): Nouvel Abrégé chronologique de l'Histoire de France, contenant les Événemens de notre Histoire depuis Clovis jusqu'à la mort de Louis XIV, les guerres, les batailles, les sièges, &c. Troisième Édition, Revue, corrigée, augmentée & ornée de vignettes & fleurons en taille-douce. A Paris, Chez Prault père, Prault fils, Desaint & Saillant, 1749. Supplément au Nouvel Abrégé chronologique de l'Histoire de France, contenant Les Additions & Corrections faites à cet Ouvrage dans la Ve. Edition. 1756. Pour Servir A la troisième & à la quatrième Edition. Paris, Prault père, Prault fils, Desaint & Saillant, 1756; two volumes in 4°, red morocco, smooth spines, green morocco title and reference on volume I, triple gilt fillet on covers, gilt edges (period binding). A very fine edition, printed on large paper and illustrated with a fleuron on the title, three vignettes and 36 fine culs-de-lampe drawn and engraved by Cochin. A superb copy in large paper, finely bound by Pierre-Étienne Anguerrand for President Chrétien-François-Guillaume de Lamoignon, Garde des Sceaux of France, who built up a very fine library according to his taste for literature and history. At the foot of the spines are the library numbers 2 T 31, stamped on a piece of olive morocco, and 2 T 32, handwritten on the r° of the first blank leaf. It bears his printed ex-libris Bibliotheca Lamoniana and his stamp on page 3 of the text. The two volumes constitute lot 4566 of the second sale of the Bibliothèque de Feu Mr de Lamoignon, Garde des Sceaux de France, held in 1791, which, in addition to manuscripts, included 2,300 lots.