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This item is currently on reserve; please contact dealer for more details.[ IMPORTANT BOOK ANNOTATED BY SEVERAL 18th c. GENEALOGISTS
THE COPY OF A FREEMASON, 1st CLERK OF THE "HOLY SPIRIT" CABINET UNDER LOUIS XVI ]
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ANSELME, Père, (Pierre de GUILBOURS dit),
Histoire généalogique et chronologique de la maison royale de France, des grands officiers
de la couronne et de la maison du roy (...)
Paris, Compagnie des Libraires, 1712. Folio, 2 vol., brown calf, (8) ff., 894 p., (23) ff. ; (2) ff., p. 889-1786, (15) ff.
Important work on the French nobility; second edition enlarged by Honoré Caille who took over the papers of Father Anselme de Sainte-Marie, a Discalced Augustin.
A fascinating copy, heavily annotated by several eighteenth-century genealogists who specified genealogies of characters not treated by Father Anselm.
The only owner to have worn his bookplate is Charpentier, probably the first clerk of the Cabinet of the Order of the Holy Spirit in rue Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois under Louis… Read More