[Armorial binding] PLATO. - Lot 249

[Armorial binding] PLATO. Les Œuvres de Platon, traduites en françois, avec des Remarques. Et la vie de ce Philisophe, avec l'exposition des principaux dogmes de sa Philosophie. A Amsterdam, chez Estienne Roger, 1700, 2 volumes in-12 bound in full blond calf, ribbed spines decorated in the grotesque style, title page, double gilded fillet, central coat of arms, gilded edges, headpieces of volume II damaged. Bound with the arms of Armand Mormès de Saint-Hilaire (1651-1740), lieutenant-general in the armies of the King of France, a specialist in artillery; he took part in numerous battles during the wars of Louis XIV and, at the end of his life, was governor of Belle-Île-en-Mer. Frontispiece portrait, repeated in Volume II, whose title page shows a small tear and a small marginal loss, without incidence.