[ORLEANS (Pierre-Joseph d'). Histoire de deux conquérans tar - Lot 121

[ORLEANS (Pierre-Joseph d'). Histoire de deux conquérans tartares, qui ont subjugé l Chine. By the R. P. J. D. ***. A Paris, chez Louis Lucas, 1689. Two parts in one volume, in-8, [15] f., 319-37 p., contemporary brown calf, 5-rib spine, gilt title, ornate caissons, speckled edges (flaws including uncovered nerves at edge of upper board, worn corners, scratches; title reassembled with mottling, other very light mottling to very last ff. and negligible in qq. margins). First edition, second issue dated 1689, the text having been printed by Antoine Lambin in 1688. The second part contains: "Histoire du Sevagi et de son successeur, nouveaux conquerans dans les Indes". There is no introductory folio, as in all copies. Provenance: M. de Beauvalon (old ms. mention on lower flyleaf). (Cordier, Bibl. sinica, 629; Sommervogel V, 1940-14).