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[RELIGIOSA] Dom MICHEL FELIBIEN - Histoire Abbaye royale de Saint-Denys en France contenant la vie des Abbez qui l'ont gouverné
By Frederic Léonard, Paris, 1706 - First edition and very fine copy of this formidable study
First edition of the first history of the abbey of St Denis. The history of the abbots is completed by a Description de l'église de Saint-Denys en France with details of the abbey's architecture, descriptions of the tombs and the treasury, the work is formidably illustrated with an engraved frontispiece after Boulogne le jeune engraved in intaglio, 12 double-page plates engraved after Leblond and Lebrun, a plan of the town of Saint-Denis drawn by Dumesnil Voyer and engraved by Anselin and 13 vignettes after Rubens, Hallé, Boulogne le jeune and Oppenord, 12 intaglio initials and 5 intaglio culs-de-lampe, numerous plates (including ten double-page plates) engraved by Poilly. This is an important descriptive source on the state of the basilica before the revolutionaries set about destroying it. Brunet II, 1203; Lelong, 12415; De Bure, 4520; Lama, n°327; Dom Martène VIII, 90; Conlon, 13198.
In-folio, (24) 592pp, 224pp. (24)
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