[ASTRUC (Jean)] - Lot 51

[ASTRUC (Jean)] Mémoires pour l'histoire naturelle de la province du Languedoc. Paris, Cavelier, 1737. In-4; illustrated with 4 maps and 6 folding plates. Contemporary fawn calf, ornate ribbed spine, red title-piece, central gilt coat of arms, gilt tripletfilet framing the boards, gilt roulette on the edges, red edges, minor minor defects. First edition by the physician to the kings of Poland and France. Provenance: Copy from the library of Samuel-Jacques Bernard, comte de Coubert, maître des requêtes then superintendant des finances de la reine in 1725 and master of ceremonies of the Order of Saint-Louis, with his gilded arms bearing the motto "bellicae virtutis praemium" (OHR 1043).