SAINT-AUGUSTIN.

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SAINT-AUGUSTIN.
La Cité de dieu, translated into French and reviewed on several old manuscripts; with remarks & notes. Paris, André Pralard, 1693. 2 volumes in-8 (178 x 114 mm) of 20 ff.n.ch., 732 pp. for volume I; 737 pp.., 9 ff.n.ch. for volume II; The book is a collection of three volumes, each of which contains a large mosaic mosaic scroll of lemon morocco with small silver irons, mosaic-edged discs of red morocco with spiral grooves, ribbed spines, boxes decorated with various alternating motifs in red and lemon morocco, the title and tomaison pieces of which are also decorated with silver motifs, gilded roulette on the slices, lining of lemon morocco decorated with a large silver floral roulette, gilded slices on marbling (Antoine-Michel Padeloup), and cases in brown morocco from the 19th century. Very beautiful binding made around 1730 by one of the great masters of 18th century French mosaic binding. Antoine-Michel Padeloup (1685-1758) is certainly the best known of the great Padeloup dynasty. Thoinan notes that this highly skilled and inventive bookbinder ? also produced many mosaic bindings, and his works in this genre are almost always of a remarkable finish, which none of his rivals surpassed ?. A copy ruler in red, slightly yellowed, some printed marginalia touched by the bookbinder's knife. Provenance: Beckford (with the words: "Bought at Fonthill sale [sale 1823], Lisbon binding very curious") - Cortlandt Bishop (ex-libris, sale 1948, lot 29) - Raphael Esmerian (ex-libris, sale I, lot 130). See Michon, La Reliure mosaïquée, plate XIII for a very close binding.
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