[...]. OFFICE (L') de la Semaine sainte... À Paris, Chez Ant - Lot 9

[...]. OFFICE (L') de la Semaine sainte... À Paris, Chez Antoine Ruette, 1661, in-8°, red morocco, fanfare décor decorated with stippled irons, wing-shaped line irons, coat of arms in the center, fleur-de-lys and crowned dauphin mixed in the décor, motifs repeated on the spine, ribbed spine, interior gilt roulette, gilt edges (period binding). Collation: frontispiece, 236 ff. sign. A-Z8, Aa-Ff8, Gg4, ch. 1 to 468. One of the two Holy Week offices printed by Antoine Ruette. Text based on the breviary and missal of Pope Urbain VIII. Engraved frontispiece and 3 figures, included in the pagination, two signed P. Bertrand. Printed in red and black. Fine copy, with the coat of arms of Louis de France (1661-1711), known as the Grand Dauphin, eldest son of Louis XIV and Marie-Thérèse of Austria. Unknown to Esmerian and Hobson, this gilded binding for the Grand Dauphin, by Antoine Ruette, has remained very well preserved. The famous lapidary cites a binding decorated with the arms of Louis XIV, from the same workshop, also on an Office de la Semaine sainte from 1661. Minor wear to corners and headpieces. The volume is preserved in a tan morocco slipcase. Dimensions: 176 x 115 mm. Provenances: a bookplate featuring a numeral, CH (?), unknown; Fr. Kettaneh (Cat., 1980, no. 109, reproduction), with his bookplate. Esmerian (R.), II, 1972, p. 55; Esmerian (R.), Douze tableaux synoptiques sur la reliure au XVIIe siècle, VI, Antoine Ruette, 1640-1669; Olivier, pl. 2522, fers 15 and 16.