SENAULT (Fr.). LA VIE DE MADAME CATHERINE DE MONTHOLON... Lot 177

SENAULT (Fr.). LA VIE DE MADAME CATHERINE DE MONTHOLON widow of Monsieur de Sanzelles Maistre des Requestes, and foundress of the Ursulines of Dijon. Paris, Le Petit, 1653. In-4 brown calf, boards decorated in the Duseuil style with gold-stamped arms in the center, spine ribbed and decorated, gilt title, marbled edges (Binding of the period). 3 corners dulled, headpieces missing, jaws largely split but seams solid, stamp scratched with 2 small holes in margin of title f.. FIRST EDITION. Gilt-edged copy of Charles Le Goux de LA BERCHÈRE (1647-1719), who owned one of the most important libraries of the period, then of the library of René François de Beauvau du Rivau (1664-1739), archbishop of Narbonne, with his handwritten bookplate on the title page. ¶ OHR, 2234.