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AUX ARMES DE MARIE-THÉRÈSELOUISE DE SAVOIE-CARIGNAN, PRINCESSE DE LAMBALLE
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Royal Almanac, Year M. DCC. LXXXVII. Presented to His Majesty for the first time in 1699, by Laurent d'Houry, editor. Put in order and published by Debure, son-in-law of the late M. d'Houry. Paris, d'Houry's widow and Debure, s. d. [1786].
Fort in-8 (132 x 220 mm), (1) blank f. with typographical frame, 720 pp. with (2) blank ff. with typographical frame| interleaved calendar.
Contemporary red morocco, smooth fleur-de-lys spine, triple gilt fillet on covers, fleurs-de-lis in spandrels, gilt arms in the center, decorated edges and inner border, blue silk endpapers, gilt edges. (Some slight traces of use to the binding).
Precious copy with the coat of arms of the princess of Lamballe (1749- 1792), heart friend of the queen Marie-Antoinette. This feminine provenance is one of the rarest of the Ancien Régime: "Madame de Lamballe's books are in small number and their condition is poor" (Ernest Quentin-Bauchart, who lists only six copies of this provenance). Widowed at the age of eighteen to the Prince of Lamballe, son of the Duke of Penthièvre, Marie-Thérèse-Louise de Savoie-Carignan (1749-1792) became superintendent of the household of Marie-Antoinette, with whom she developed a loyal friendship. Her name is forever associated with her tragic end. Arrested on August 10, 1792, she was a victim of the September massacres. Her head was carried through Paris on a pike and shown to the imprisoned queen.
REFERENCES
OHR pl. 2612| Quentin-Bauchart, Les femmes bibliophiles de France, II, pp. 219-224.
PROVENANCE
Dominique de Villepin (bookplate).
Fort in-8 (132 x 220 mm), (1) blank f. with typographical frame, 720 pp. with (2) blank ff. with typographical frame| interleaved calendar.
Contemporary red morocco, smooth fleur-de-lys spine, triple gilt fillet on covers, fleurs-de-lis in spandrels, gilt arms in the center, decorated edges and inner border, blue silk endpapers, gilt edges. (Some slight traces of use to the binding).
Precious copy with the coat of arms of the princess of Lamballe (1749- 1792), heart friend of the queen Marie-Antoinette. This feminine provenance is one of the rarest of the Ancien Régime: "Madame de Lamballe's books are in small number and their condition is poor" (Ernest Quentin-Bauchart, who lists only six copies of this provenance). Widowed at the age of eighteen to the Prince of Lamballe, son of the Duke of Penthièvre, Marie-Thérèse-Louise de Savoie-Carignan (1749-1792) became superintendent of the household of Marie-Antoinette, with whom she developed a loyal friendship. Her name is forever associated with her tragic end. Arrested on August 10, 1792, she was a victim of the September massacres. Her head was carried through Paris on a pike and shown to the imprisoned queen.
REFERENCES
OHR pl. 2612| Quentin-Bauchart, Les femmes bibliophiles de France, II, pp. 219-224.
PROVENANCE
Dominique de Villepin (bookplate).