BEAUCHASTEAU, LA LYRE DU JEUNE APOLLON, PARIS, 1657, LATER RED MOROCCO GILT WITH THE ARMS OF THE DUC D'ANGOULÊME

4to (241 x 165mm.), additional engraved title-page, engraved frontispiece portrait, title printed in red and black, engraved and woodcut headpieces and initials, engraved illustration, 25 (of 26?) engraved portraits, eighteenth-century red morocco gilt (plausibly by Bozerian) with the arms of the duc d'Angoulême [Olivier 2552 fer 5], flat spine gilt, gilt edges, occasional light browning; sold as a binding not subject to return

Louis Antoine d'Artois (1775-1844), duc d'Angoulême, arms on binding; Saul Cohn, sale, Parke-Bernet, 26 April 1955, lot 47

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate
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