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three red books sitting on top of each other on a white surfacean open book with a black and white title on itan old map of the middle of the world in a bookan old book with a pattern of birds on itmany different types of coat of arms on this pagean old black and white photo of a man in a priest ' s robesan open book with a map of a city on itan old book with a drawing of a church on it
Maître Paul PASTAUD

155 - Burgundy – LEBEUF (Jean). Memoirs on the civil and ecclesias…
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Estimate €200 - €250
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Burgundy – LEBEUF (Jean). Memoirs on the civil and ecclesiastical history of Auxerre and its former diocese. Continued to the present day by Mr Challe and Mr Quantin. Auxerre: Perriquet, Rouillé, Guillaume-Maillefer; Paris: Dumoulin, 1848–1855. 4 vols. large 8vo, with illustrations in the text, and 11 separate plates, including a lithographed frontispiece portrait with a serpent motif, 4 fold-out maps (the diocese, the town, the county), one fold-out chromolithographic plate, two plates of coats of arms, two fold-out lithographed view plates, one lithographed portrait (Amyot), red half-shagreen, ribbed spine decorated with double gilt panels, speckled edges (contemporary binding). A fine copy. This is the finest edition of this magnificent regional monograph, originally published in two quarto volumes in 1743, and now almost as difficult to find as the original.
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About the sale MONTIGNAC – 31st BOOK SALE – Day 1 of 4 – Nos. 1 to 549
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Auction time 08/19/2026 at 11:00 AM
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