SEGAUD (Guillaume de). - Lot 94

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SEGAUD (Guillaume de). - Lot 94
SEGAUD (Guillaume de). Sermons of Father de Segaud of the Society of Jesus. Paris : Hippolyte-Louis Guerin, 1750 [Carême tomes 1 et 2] ; Paris : J. B. Coignard, A. Boudet, 1750 [Carême tome 3, Avent, Panégyriques] ; Paris : Marc Bordelet, 1750 [Mystères]. - 6 volumes in-12, 166 x 98 : (3 ff.), 588 pp. ; (3 ff.), 594 pp. ; (3 ff.), 568 pp. ; xxxix, 542 pp. ; (3 ff.), 502 pp. ; (3 ff.), 662 pp. Red morocco, triple gilt fillet, gilt dolphin in the corners and gilt arms in the center of the boards, spine decorated with gilt dolphins, inner gilt roulette, gilt edges on marbled boards (period binding). First edition of the sermons of the preacher and Jesuit father Guillaume de Segaud (1675-1748), dedicated to Louis, dauphin of France (1729-1765), published by Isaac-Joseph Berruyer (1681-1758) who added at the end of each volume an analysis of each text. One of the volumes is devoted to the panegyrics of Father Segaud. The dedication to the dauphin appears in the volume devoted to the Advent sermons. PRECIOUS EXAMPLE OF A DEDICATION TO THE ARMS OF LOUIS, DAUPHIN OF FRANCE, fourth child of Louis XV, dauphin from 1729 to 1765. He married the infanta Marie-Raphaëlle of Spain on February 23, 1745 and Marie-Josèphe of Saxony on February 9, 1747. He was the father of Louis XVI, Louis XVIII and Charles X. Spine faded, splitting at several hinges, the one on the first cover of the first volume of the Lenten sermons is very fragile, the cover is partly unraveled. Corners dulled, a few headpieces faded. A misplaced quire in the Advent volume. Provenance: Louis de France, with his arms on the boards. - L. Pasquier, with ex-libris.
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