COLONIA (Dominica de). LITERARY HISTORY OF... - Lot 374 - Conan Belleville Hôtel d'Ainay

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COLONIA (Dominica de). LITERARY HISTORY OF... - Lot 374 - Conan Belleville Hôtel d'Ainay
COLONIA (Dominica de). LITERARY HISTORY OF THE CITY OF LYON, with a library of Lyon's authors, sacred and profane, distributed by centuries. LYON, François RIGOLLET, 1728 - 1730. 2 volumes, in-4, de (16) ff., 414 pp., (1) ff. - (5) ff, 838 pp., (11) ff, ancient half-bindings in Havana basane. Spine with 5 raised bands decorated with gilt fillets bearing the title pieces in red basane and tomaison in black basane, red edges. Rubbed bindings, freckles in the first volume, absent in the second, the last two leaves of the table of contents are handwritten. Rare first edition, illustrated with eight off-text plates, most of them folding. Title vignettes with the arms of the city of Lyon. Title pages in red and black. Remarkable and vast work dating back to the foundation of the city until 1730. Colonia lists all the events and characters (scholars, men of letters, writers) of the city. The first part studies the antiquities of the city, then the whole progresses by century.
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