LABBE, Philippe (1607-1667), trad. Lot n° 7

- Le Martyrologe romain. Paris: Mathurin Henault, 1643. Dedication copy, in contemporary red morocco stamped with the name of the dedicatee, Anne Geneviève de Bourbon-Condé, duchesse de Longueville, known as "Madame de Longueville" (1619-1679). Quentin-Bauchart, II, pp. 396-397: "the spirit and beauty of the Duchesse de Longueville, and the great influence she exerted on seventeenth-century society, have marked her place in this gallery of famous women, although the books said to have belonged to her most often bear her husband's coat of arms". In-4 (247 x 165 mm). Frequent spotting and browning, quires Kk, Ll and Ss very browned. Contemporary binding: red morocco, boards decorated with a semis of the letters ANNE DE BOURBON, alternating with fleurs-de-lis, double gilt fillet, ribbed spine with caissons similarly decorated on the boards, edges gilt over marble (spines rebacked). Provenance: on the title, a 17th-century handwritten note: "ce martirologe appartenoit à feüe Madame La Duchesse de Longueville" (this martirologe belonged to feüe Madame La Duchesse de Longueville). Attached to the copy is a handwritten note on a headed sheet by the bookseller and bookbinder Léon Gruel, with biographical information on Anne de Bourbon which he takes from Quentin-Bauchart, and which states "très précieuse reliure, semis de fleurs de lys et Anne de Bourbon. Exemplaire de dédicace 1642...Nous ne connaissons aucune reliure à ses armes" -- Alexis de Redé (ex-libris). The dedication copy, bound in contemporary red morocco stamped with the gilt name of the dedicatee, Anne de Bourbon, also known as "Madame de Longueville". To bid, please go to "Sales information".