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GENERAL AND ALPHABETICAL DICTIONARY OF THE GARDES
on foot an…
See original version (French)
82
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GENERAL AND ALPHABETICAL DICTIONARY OF THE GARDES
on foot an…
See original version (French)
Estimate €400 - €500
Voluntary lot
Description
GENERAL AND ALPHABETICAL DICTIONARY OF THE GARDES
on foot and on horseback in the Woods, Hunting Grounds and Fishing Grounds of His Most Serene Highness, His Lordship the Count of Eu, both in his Principality of Anet and in his County of Eu, the Duchy of Aumalle, the County of Argentan, and the County of Cressy…containing their names, nicknames, places of residence and length of service up to 1 January 1764.
Square 12mo, (4) folios (half-title, title page, introduction) – 42 pp. Red morocco leather with the coat of arms of the period, decorated ribbed spine, covers framed by a gilded garland with floral and animal motifs, gilt edges, blue silk endpapers (some scuffing and scattered, discreet pinholes).
Note:
Manuscript bearing the coat of arms of Louis-Charles, alias the Count of Eu, Prince of Dombes.
The manuscript was subsequently passed on to King Louis Philippe, bearing his seal ‘La Bibliothèque du Roi / Palais Royal’ on the half-title page, and is now held in the library of the Palais des Orléans.
Brown ink, framed text, numbered folios, clear and legible handwriting, well written.
An interesting and informative introduction at the beginning of the manuscript.
A list of staff involved in various hunting activities and forestry trades, belonging to a prominent 18th-century aristocrat across all his estates.
Louis-Charles de Bourbon, born at the Château de Sceaux in 1701, where he died in 1775, was a French prince of the House of Bourbon, who served as Duke of Aumale, Duke of Maine, Duke of Gisors, Count of Eu, Count of Dreux, Prince of Anet and Baron of Sceaux, as well as the last sovereign of Dombes, grandson of Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan (legitimised branch, with a barred coat of arms).
HUNTING. ÎLE-DE-FRANCE. SCEAUX.
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