[Binding with the arms]. DAVID (Michel-Antoine), ed. Recueil - Lot 35

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[Binding with the arms]. DAVID (Michel-Antoine), ed. Recueil - Lot 35
[Binding with the arms]. DAVID (Michel-Antoine), ed. Recueil de pièces choisies sur les conquêtes & la convalescence du Roy. In Paris], Presented to His Majesty by David the Elder, 1745. In-8, [2] f., 174 p., figs, frontispiece, contemporary mottled havana calf, spine with 5 nerves, brown morocco title-piece, ornamented boards, triple gilt fillet bordering the boards, gilt arms in the centre, gilt fillet at the edges, red edges (uncovered headpieces, 2 corners worn, some soiling to the title and in some margins, rare freckles). This collection contains notably pieces by Fréron, Racine, de Bernis, and one by Voltaire: "Discours en vers, sur les évènemens de l'année 1744". The illustration consists of an allegorical frontispiece drawn and engraved on copper by Charles-Nicolas Cochin, a vignette on the title and another with the royal arms at the head of the text, both engraved on copper and unsigned, and wood-engraved culs-de-lampe. Provenance: the arms of the Noailles family.
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