Online auction - Lot 289
[France]
Chronicon de regibus Francorum, a Faramundo usque ad Franciscum Primum [...].
Paris, M. Vascosan, 1551
Starting bid: €
160
€ 100 / 200
Bidding via DrouotLot description
8vo: [88] ff.
18th-c. boards covered with marbled paper. Good copy.
Later ed. (1st 1539) of a popular chronicle of the French kings (420-1550). It was composed by Jean (II) Du Tillet (1500-1570), bishop of St-Brieuc and Meaux. Printed within ruled borders, with open space left blank at the end.
Ref. Adams D-1204. - Pettegree (FB) 65903.
Prov. Danzig ownership entry of 1639 (title bottom). - J.G. Smolderen, Antwerp politician and collector (library sold in 1855).