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(HORAE B.M.V.) Heures présentées à Madame la Dauphine. 6 plates; variously decorated divisional titles and initials, floral or historiated headpieces, and calligraphic flourishes. [2], 260 pages. entirely engraved throughout. 8vo, contemporary red morocco, spine in 6 compartments with green morocco lettering piece in one and floral tooling in the rest, joints scuffed; occasional light marginal foxing, clean tear in lower inner corner of a few consecutive leaves in middle of volume. Paris: Théodore de Hansy, circa 1745
Engraved calligraphic Book of Hours created for the Infanta Maria Teresa Rafaela of Spain, who became the wife of Louis, Dauphin of France, in 1745; she died in childbirth the following year at the age of 20.
