[ORDER OF THE KNOT]. VIEL-CASTEL (Horace de). Statutes of the Order of the Holy Spirit, known as the “Order of the Knot,” established in Naples in 1352 by Louis of Anjou, the first of that name, King of Jerusalem, Naples, and Sicily. A 14th-century manuscript preserved at the Louvre in the Museum of French Monarchs. Paris, Engelman and Graf, Printers and Lithographers, 1853. Folio, brown morocco leather, with extensive and elaborate gilded and embossed decoration consisting of interlacing patterns, a scattering of lilies, and mosaic coats of arms adorning the covers; a radiant dove within a quatrefoil motif at the center; spine with raised bands adorned with doves (Gruel). Seventeen chromolithographic plates mounted on tabs. From the Charles Lormier library, with an ex-libris. Saffroy, I, 4968; Guigard, 634. A BEAUTIFUL COPY IN A RICH BINDING WITH MOSAIC COATS OF ARMS BY GRUEL.