Lévêque, Memoires pour servir a l'histoire du cardinal de Granvelle, Paris, 1753, 2 volumes, contemporary mottled calf

2 volumes, 12mo (165 x 95 mm). Roman type, 25 lines. collation: a-b¹² A-O¹² P⁴ (final verso blank); [π]³ A-Q¹² R⁴ S¹: 196 + 200 leaves. Two folding plates, woodcut arms on title-pages, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, some modern pencil annotations to first volume. (Some light spotting to upper margin, 20 mm tear to outer margin of H6 of second volume.)

binding: Contemporary mottled brown calf (170 x 110 mm), manuscript shelfmarks "23" and "2356" on upper covers, spines with 5 full bands, red title-piece in second compartment, gilt acorn within leafy border in other compartments, red edges, marbled endpapers. (Bindings somewhat scraped, some worming and cracking to joints, with old repairs to joints of first volume.)

provenance: Franz Pollack-Parnau (1903- 2002), Vienna, bookplate. acquisition: Purchased in 2002 from Erasmushaus, Basel. references: Brunet VI, 1406