[Rostaing (House of)]. Memorial collection of the letters pa - Lot 436

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[Rostaing (House of)]. Memorial collection of the letters pa - Lot 436
[Rostaing (House of)]. Memorial collection of the letters patent of the change of name of the Chasteau and County of Bury en Blaisois, into County of Rostaing, to take the place in France of the Marquisate of Rostaing, which is in Germany, between Bamberck & Franquefort as can be seen in this Book, which the said Lord Charles Marquis & Count of Rostaing had printed. In Paris, by Pierre Variquet, rüe S. Iacques, au Gril, prés S. Benoist. 1656. In-4, [2] f., 171 p., fr., pl., full Havana morocco, spine with 5 ribs, gilt title, boxes decorated with a crowned figure CC, plates decorated with fanfare, gilt fillets and fleurons and with the crowned figure CC repeated, arms in the centre, gilt edges (2 corners rubbed, light rubbing on the top plate, laces absent; scraping of the paper on the edge of a counterplate, one corner mq. in margin f.). N3, very pale halo in title, qq. ff. browned). Unusual work, printed at the expense of the Marquis de Rostaing. The copper-engraved illustration consists of a frontispiece showing a vignette of the Château de Bury, with the arms and portraits of Charles de Rostaing and Anne Hurault in the corners; a plate showing a tomb in the church of the Feuillants Saint-Bernard in Paris (present twice in this copy); the arms of Rostaing engraved on copper on a full page A copy of this present, in a luxurious binding with the arms of Charles de Rostaing. Old manuscript ex-libris with the title.
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