PUFENDORF (Samuel de). - Lot 116

PUFENDORF (Samuel de). Introduction à l'histoire des principaux Etats, Tels qu'ils sont aujourd'hui dans l'Europe. A Utrecht, Chez Antoine Schouten, 1703. 2 volumes in-12, calf, gilded coat of arms in the center of the boards, spine ribbed and decorated (period binding). Two allegorical titles and two engraved portraits. EXEMPLAIRE AUX ARMES de Louis Urbain Le FÈVRE de CAUMARTIN, marquis de SAINT-ANGE (1653-1720), intendant des finances et conseiller d'État, who left "a library remarkable both for the choice of works and the beauty of the bindings". From the Dupont de Gault library, with engraved and handwritten bookplate on the titles. Minor marginal damage on four leaves of vol. II.