Binding.- Royal Arms.- Office de la Semaine Sainte, engraved additional title laid-down to sheet, ink note in later hand to recto, lacking front endpaper, a little spotting, contemporary red morocco, gilt, with central French royal arms to covers, fleur-de-lys within compartments to spine, borders, edges and dentelles likewise gilt, spine foot a little chipped, otherwise some light scuffing, Paris, Gregoire Dupuis, 1724 § Martin (L. Aimé) Mémoire sur la vie les Ouvrages de J. H. Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, some foxing, contemporary red straight-grain morocco, gilt and stamped in blind, with central French royal arms to covers, pale blue silk doublures and endpapers, some glue staining at gutter, g.e., Paris, chez Ladvocat, 1826, 8vo (bindings: 198x134mm; 214x135mm.) (2) *** The ink note (first mentioned) suggests the book was in the possession of Élisabeth of France, sister of Louis XVI, during her imprisonment in the Temple with the royal family in the 1790s prior to execution, postulating that it may also have been used by Marie Antoinette and her daughter, the Madame Royale. Another note (loosely inserted) further suggests that it was used by Louis XVI himself on the way to the scaffold; both corners of p.341 are turned down, marking Psalm 58, 'Mon Deiu, délivrez-moi de mes ennemis...".