[BOURGOIN de VILLEFORE (Joseph-François)]. - Lot 47

[BOURGOIN de VILLEFORE (Joseph-François)]. Anecdotes ou Memoires secrets sur la Constitution Unigenitus. S. l., 1730, A Utrecht, Chez Guillaume-Corneille Le Febvre, Imprimeur-Libraire, 1731, & A Trevoux, Aux Depens de la Societé, s. d. [1733]. 3 volumes in-12, olive morocco, central coat of arms, ribbed spine, gilt edges (period binding). ORIGINAL EDITION of this work based on the Diary of Abbé Dorsanne, a Jansenist involved in the violent dispute provoked by the fulmination of the Unigenitus bull (1713). From the La Rochefoucauld and Edward D. Ingraham libraries, with bookplate. The notebook corresponding to the "Avertissement" is found between pp. 12 and 13 of vol. III. Mottling in vol. III; foxing, but, EXEMPLAIRE AUX ARMES duc de LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. Barbier, I, 186