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Recueil memorial des lettres patentes du changement de nom du Chasteau et Comte de Bury en Blaisois en Comte de Rostaing.

Accession number
PML 15467
Published
A Paris : Par Pierre Variquet, ruë S. Iacques, au Gril, prés S. Bonoist, 1656.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan,
Description
[4] leaves, 171 [1] pages : illustrations (engraved plates) ; 24 cm
Notes
Binder's title: Fondat de Rost.
Engraved frontispiece with portrait busts of Charles de Rostaing and Anne Hurault (dated 1642), and three engraved plates: Rostaing armorial (verso of title page) and Rostaing sepulchre, dated 1640 (opposite p. 1 an
Binding
Red morocco, gilt tooled with the arms and crowned chiffres of Charles, marquis de Rostaing on the covers and spine, dated 1648; decoration in the style of Le Gascon.
Provenance
Paris, Blancs-Manteaux, Cistercians, inscription: "Monasterij B.M. Albo mantellorum ordinis S. Benedicti congregationis S. Mauri, 1729" (engraved frontispiece); Paris, Bibliothèque du Tribunat (1800-1807), stamp and shelfmark: F ''N.665 (engraved frontis
Classification
Century
Department