Live auction - Lot 755
[France - History]
Histoire et chronique mémorable [...]. Reveu et corrigé sus [sic] divers exemplaires, et suivant les bons auteurs, par Denis Sauvage, de Fontenailles en Brie, historiographe du treschrestien roy Henry deuxiesme de ce nom.
Paris, J. Ruelle, 1574
€ 350 / 500
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Lot description
4 pt. in 1 vol., folio: [16]-423-[29], [12]-288-[4], [8]-333-[3], [8]-324 pp. (1st title underlaid and inner margin of a8 strengthened, dampstaining, foxing in pt. III, some parts of text restored by hand, corrections, lines crossed out, underlinings and ms. marginalia).
17th-c. binding: overl. vellum covers, leather spine with raised bands (rubbed, joints split, head def., front flyleaf missing).
Edited by Denis Sauvage (1520?-1587?), historiographer of Henri II.
Ref. USTC 1566. - Pettegree (FB) 21934. - Adams F-1067. - STC French p. 189.