Berry. THAUMAS DE LA THAUMASSIÈRE (Gaspard). Lot n° 90

[Berry]. THAUMAS DE LA THAUMASSIÈRE (Gaspard). Nouveaux commentaires sur les coutumes générales des pays et duché du Berri. Nouvelle édition... joint à la fin un Traité du Franc-alleu de Berri. Bourges, Jean-Jacques Cristo, 1701. In-folio, contemporary fawn basane, 5-ribbed spine, ornate caissons, havana title page. New edition, revised, corrected and enlarged, of these important commentaries on the customs of Berry, by the jurist, Bourges alderman and historian G. Thaumas de La Thaumassière (1631-1702). It is illustrated on the frontispiece with a copper-engraved portrait of the author by P. van Schuppen after Ambroise Quenin. Old handwritten bookplate on title.