[Rarebooks] fa: L'ART DE VERIFIER LES DATES DES FAITS HISTORIQUE - Folio in Handsome French Cat's Paw Binding - 1770

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Ardwight Chamberlain
Ann Arbor, MI, USA

[Francois Clement; Maur Dantine; Ursin Durand; Charles Clemencet:] L'Art de Verifier les Dates des Faits Historiques, des Chartes, des Chroniques et autres Anciens Monumens, depuis la naissance de Notre-Seigneur, par le moyen d'une Table Chronologique ou l'on trouve les Olympiades, les annees de Jesus-Christ, des eres d'Alexandrie & de Constantinople, de l'ere des Seleucides, de l'ere Cesareenne d'Antioche, de l'ere d'Espagna, de l'ere des martyrs, de l'Hegire... Avec deux calendriers perpetuels, la chronologie historique des conciles, des papes, des quatre patriarches d'Orient, des empereurs... des rois... Nouvelle edition, revue, corrigee & augmentee, par un religieux benedictin de la congregation de S. Maur. Paris: G. Desprez, MDCCLXX [1770]. First edition thus. Tall, thick folio (38.5x26 cm. / 15.25x10.25 in.) in full early/period French mottled cat's-paw calf, gilt-tooled boards, spine and turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all page edges gilt; [8], xx, xxxvii, [1], 934, [2] pp.; with the half-title and terminal leaf of directions to the binder; title printed in red & black, engraved vignettes, woodcut decorations.

A very nice copy indeed of a handsomely printed book, bound in an elegant, well-preserved French binding of the period. Binding with wear to the corners and spine ends, scuff marks to the rear board, cracking to the joints but both boards are secure; contents with occasional very light cockling to the leaves, a few random small spots, otherwise exceedingly clean, bright and fresh. Front paste-down with the armorial bookplate of Henricus Liber Baro de Gudenus [Heinrich von Gudenus] and the early/original bookseller's label of the freres Gay of Strasbourg; later bookplate and blind-stamp of King Lawrence Parker.