[CALMET (Dom Augustin)] - Histoire Généalogique de la Maison - Lot 825

[CALMET (Dom Augustin)] - Histoire Généalogique de la Maison du Châtelet, puînée branche de la maison de Lorraine. Justifiée par les Titres les plus authentiques, la plupart tirés du Trésor des Chartes de Lorraine, Tombeaux, Sceaux, Monnoyes & autres anciens Monuments publics. Nancy, De l'Imprimerie de la Veuve de Jean-Baptiste Cusson, 1741; in-folio, XXXII pp. + 1 folding genealogical table + 204 pp. + CCCXII pp. (pièces justificatives et table) + 1 f.n.ch. of privilege, full contemporary calf, spine decorated with nerves, red title page (tear at upper headband, binding rubbed, leather missing from corners, inner hinge fragile). First edition, complete with 23 beautiful plates, including 5 fold-outs (tombstones, recumbents, mausoleums) engraved by Aveline and Ravenet, after Humblot, and 10 genealogical tables, including 8 fold-outs. Numerous blazons and coats of arms engraved on wood or copper in the text. Early handwritten ex-dono on title page. A good copy, despite the binding's reported defects, in fine interior condition.