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a set of seven books with gold covers and ornate designs
Crait+Muller Charenton-Vincennes

332 - Helyot (Pierre, known in religious circles as Father Hippoly…
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Estimate €500 - €700
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Helyot (Pierre, known in religious circles as Father Hippolyte). - A History of the Religious and Military Orders and Secular Congregations of Both Sexes that have been established to date. Covering their origins, their foundation, their development, the most significant events that have occurred within them, the decline and suppression of some, and the expansion of others, through the various reforms introduced within them, and the lives of their founders and reformers, accompanied by illustrations depicting all the different habits of these orders and congregations. Paris, Louis, 1792. New edition... 8 volumes, in-4, bound in full marbled calfskin, spined and decorated, with title labels (red) and volume number labels (green) – 12 cap ends worn away, 7 jaws chipped or split, 14 corners pierced, covers stripped of leather - The work is illustrated with 811 plates (out of 812), including 805 of costumes, 5 order necklaces and a plan of a commandery. An edition not held by the BNF but cited in Saffroy 3741
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Auction time 10/01/2026 at 10:00 AM
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