[SAINT-ESPRIT - POULLAIN de SAINT-FOIX (Germain François). C - Lot 200

[SAINT-ESPRIT - POULLAIN de SAINT-FOIX (Germain François). Catalog des chevaliers, commandeurs et officiers de l'Ordre du Saint Esprit, avec leurs Noms & Qualités, depuis l'Institution jusqu'à présent. S. l. [Paris], De l'Imprimerie de Christophe-Jean-François Ballard, 1760. Large folio volume, blond calf, triple gilt fillet framing the boards, Crowned "H" in the corners, order emblem in the center, spine decorated with the same emblem, gilt edges (period binding). Vignettes, headbands and numerous coats of arms engraved in the text after GRAVELOT. Wet stamp of the "Archives Impériales" on the title. Damage to headpieces and one corner; wetness on first cover; restoration at head of second spine; frontispiece lacking (which appears never to have been bound). "A work of great typographical luxury" (Saffroy, I, 4919). A FINE, WIDE-MARGINED COPY IN A BINDING BY BONNET, DECORATED WITH CROWNED "H CROWNED & DOVE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. See reproductions