BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE ROBERT Ier DUC DE PARME (1848-1907).... Lot 303

[BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE ROBERT Ier DUC DE PARME (1848-1907)]. FONTENAI Louis Abel de Bonafous, Abbé de. Galerie du Palais Royale, d'après les tableaux de différentes écoles qui la composent avec un abrégé de la vie des peintres & une description historique de chaque tableau, published in Paris by J. Couché & J. Bouilliard [Vol.1, 1786 (121 plates)] and J. Couché & Laporte [Vol.2 (134 plates) et Vol.3, 1808 (77 plates)], imprimerie H. Perreneau, three volumes, folio (522 x 338 mm), havana half-basin with corners and calf spine with black morocco title-pieces, title in gold lettering. A copy dedicated to S.A.S. Monseigneur le Duc d'Orléans, typographical introduction by Croze-Magnan, all plates engraved on copper by J. Couché, engraver in his firm, 332 of 352. All three volumes bear the bookplate "de la bibliothèque de S.A.R. Monseigneur le Duc de Parme". The list of plates at the end of volume 3 is missing. All the engravings reproduced in these three volumes illustrate paintings from the collection of the Duc d'Orléans, Philippe-Egalité (1747-1793), grandfather of Princess Clémentine d'Orléans. Wear to binding, as is