DEVILLE (Achille). Tombeaux de la cathédrale de Rouen. Secon - Lot 348

DEVILLE (Achille). Tombeaux de la cathédrale de Rouen. Second edition. Rouen, Nicétas Periaux, 1837. In-8 half-brown morocco with corners, spine ribbed, green marble title-piece, gilt head, covers preserved. Later binding with the small gilt coat of arms, at the bottom of the cover, of Pierre de Séré (1868-1941), with his bookplate engraved by Eugène Courboin (with the motto "Vincit Veritas"). Ex-libris JM. Second edition, more complete than the first of 1833. It is adorned with 12 plates engraved out of text, including a plan of the cathedral as a frontispiece, and enriched here with 3 additional plates. "Of the many tombs that once adorned Rouen cathedral, only seven have survived: those of our first duke Rollon, of Guill. Longue-Epée, his son, of Richard Cœur-de-Lion, of Maurice, archbishop of Rouen under S. Louis, of Pierre de Brézier, of Pierre de Brézier, and of Richard Cœur-de-Lion. Louis, Pierre de Brézé, Grand Seneschal of Normandy, Georges d'Amboise and Louis de Brézé, husband of Diane de Poitiers. The others disappeared in the disasters of the Wars of Religion." (Frère I, 355.) Minor scattered foxing, otherwise a fine copy.