DU MOULIN (Charles). Les Coustumes générales et particulières de France et des Gaules. Lyon et Paris, Jacques d'Allin, 1662. 2 volumes in-folio, fawn calf, triple fillet, supralibris emblem in centre, spine decorated with a repeated numeral, supralibris at tail, red edges (Binding of the period). New edition of the monumental coutumier général de France compiled by Charles Du Moulin (1500-1566) and expanded by Gabriel Michel de La Rochemaillet (1562-1642). The edition is also dated 1664. A very fine copy for Abbé Bignon, the learned librarian of Louis XIV, bound with supralibris and the cipher of the Bibliotheca Bignon. Jean-Paul Bignon (1662-1743) chose the ecclesiastical state as the one best suited to his love of letters. He was director of the Journal des savants, an academician and the king's librarian. He considerably increased the collections of the Royal Library, organised them into departments and opened the collections to public consultation. Abbé Bignon had built up a library of around 50,000 volumes, which he sold to the famous financier Law when he took up his post as royal librarian. Law sold it shortly afterwards to Cardinal Dubois. The present copy is described in the catalogue of the Bibliotheca Duboisiana (1725, I, no. 2090, "fawn calf, large paper"). Wear and light wear to bindings, three headpieces uncovered, pale angular wetness to a few leaves. Gouron & Terrin, n°157 (under the date 1664).