[HISTORY] - Lot 498

[HISTORY] - QUINTE CURCE: De la vie et des actions d'Alexandre le Grand. From the translation by Monsieur de Vaugelas. Avec les supplémens de Jean Freinshemius sur Quinte Curce traduits par Pierre du Ryer. Paris, Courbé, 1657. In-4: 19f., 773pp. 21f. illustrated with engraved frontispiece and folding map. Large ring at head, worm mark with text damage to part of leaves. Worn fawn basane, spine ribbed, reinforced with cloth pieces on spine. - M. Annaei Lucani Pharsalia sive de Bello Civili Caesaris et Pompeii. Amstelodami, Janson, 1651. Small in-12: 377pp. 3f. Light half-tone. Antique stiff vellum over boards, handwritten title on spine. Enclosed: - ALTHUSIUS (Joannes) : Joannis Althussii V.I.D. Iurisprudentiae romanae lib. II. Basle, Valdkirch, 1629. In-8. Light half-tone. Old soft vellum, skin missing. Provenance: Copy from the library of Alexis Jean Armand Mieulet de Lombrail (1828-1904), a native of Tarn-et-Garonne, a young aristocrat whose family came from the Garonne nobility. He attended a Catholic preparatory school in Versailles and embraced positivist ideas. He was a pupil of Auguste Comte.