MEZERAY (François de). Abrégé chronologique de l'Histoire de France. Amsterdam, David Mortier, 1720. In-12, volumes 7 and 8 alone, illustrated with an engraved portrait of Louis XIII and an engraved portrait of Louis XIV. Bound in full contemporary fawn calf, the boards bearing the arms of Louis II Colbert de Linières, grandson of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, maréchal des camps et armées du roi, monogrammed 5-rib spine. Ex-libris Josy Mazodier. (light stains and rubbing, restorations to spines, corners and headpieces, traces of light wetness at the beginning of volume 7, incomplete last pages of volume 7 catalog, last page with traces of old endpapers glued and torn off). Expert : Mr. Nicolas Asvisio