Les Annales & Croniques de France, depuis la destruction de Troye jusques au temps du roy Louis onzième, jadis composées par feu maistre Nicole Gilles [...]. Imprimées nouvellement sur la correction du seigneur Denis Sauvage de Fontenailles en Brie, & additionnées, selon les modernes historiens, jusques à cest an mil cinq cens cinquante trois.

2 parts in 1 vol., folio: [6]-130, [6]-149 ff. (sl. browning, minor foxing, occ. spotting, some ff. at the end of the volume sl. waterstained in the corner of blank margin, 1 sm. hole in f. 23 of part 2, occ. ink underlinings).

End of 17th-c. vellum, gilt orn. flat spine, red sprinkled edges (refreshed, pastedowns and flyleaves renewed). Good copy.

Rare edition of this popular chronicle by the French historian Nicole Gilles (ca. 1425-1503), revised by Denis Sauvage (ca. 1520-ca. 1587), historiographer of Henri II of France. Ill. with 7 full-page plates (6 genealogical trees and 1 representation of the Six Days of Creation), 4 ill. in-text, oval and rectangular woodcuts showing portraits of kings and numerous initials. The ed. was shared with Jean Macé (some copies bearing his name instead of Corrozet's on title). A former owner glued 5 woodcuts (3 on title) cut from at least 3 unidentified books.
Ref. Pettegree FB 22900 (only 1 copy in France: Lyon, BM). - USTC 54277. - CCfr. - Not in Adams, STC French (BL), BnF, Opac KBR, Machiels.