BAR (Joseph) General History of Germany Paris, Charles-J.-B. Delespine, Jean-Thomas Hérissant, 1748, 10 volumes in 11 forts vol. in-4, with headline vignettes engraved at the beginning of each part, 2 frontispieces (including a portrait of Frederick Augustus III of Saxony, by Daullé after Silvestre) and a large folded map with colour-enhanced outlines, blond half calf, spine with false ribs, gilt castors, title and tomaison parts in aubergine morocco (binding ca. 1820). Unique edition of this monumental history of the Germanic corps Qqs small epid. Armoured ex-libris with the motto Faire et Taire of the Renouard de Bussieres family (Alsace).