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156 - [The Regulations of the Lyon Hospital].
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Estimate €100 - €180
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[The Regulations of the Lyon Hospital]. The Organisation and Management of the General Hospital of Notre-Dame de Pitié at the Pont du Rhône, and the Grand Hôtel-Dieu of the City of Lyon. [Followed by] Letters Patent in the form of an Edict confirming the Ancient Privileges of the Hospital... [Followed by] Extract from the Registers of the Council of His Royal Highness... [Followed by] Catalogue of the rectors... Lyon, 1734, in-4, 2ff.-143pp.- frontispiece for the first title page. Bound in mottled light brown sheepskin, with gilt fillet edging, ribbed spine, title labels, palmettes and a bird between the ribs, red edges. (Contemporary binding). – 13 blank folios added at the end. The second spine label bears ‘Claude Mallava...’ (super-libris?). Ex-libris drawn in ink on the endpaper: ‘gules, an antique wheel with eight spokes’. Minor scuffing to the binding, one corner bumped, a small loss of leather on the second cover near the upper cap, a few small pinholes inside, slight water-stain in the lower margin of a few leaves of the last volume. On the frontispiece, a fine Pietà in a folk style, engraved in intaglio Bound together with: Letters Patent in the form of an Edict confirming the Ancient Privileges of the Hospital… Lyon, Duvirot, n.d. (1717?) ; 18 pages. On the title page, a fine folk-style Pietà, wood-engraved. – [Followed by] Extract from the Registers of the Council of His Royal Highness… concerning the petition submitted… by the Rectors and Administrators of the Great Hospital… 1722; 2 pages. [Followed by] Catalogue of the rectors appointed to administer the General Hospital of Notre Dame de Pitié at the Pont du Rhône… No place, no date (1743); 122 pages printed in large type on heavy paper. A fine wood-engraved header, in a folk style, featuring grotesques. It lists the names of the administrators from 1583 to 1742.
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About the sale ANTIQUE AND MODERN BOOKS at 11.00 am and 2.00 pm
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Auction time 10/29/2026 at 11:00 AM
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