Live auction - Lot 756
[France - History]
Les recherches de la France, reveuës & augmentées de quatre livres.
Paris, J. Mettayer & P. l'Huillier, (10 April) 1596
€ 150 / 250
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Lot description
Folio: [4]-377 [= 379]-[16] ff. (quire ā bound btw A1 and A2; sl. dampstaining and staining, occ. foxing).
Contemp. red morocco, gilt ruled covers, inner frame "à la Du Seuil", large coat of arms with blason cut off (loss repaired with a piece of morocco pasted on), gilt orn. spine with raised bands (spine def., front joint split, sl. rubbed, corners bumped).
Monument of French historiography (1st: 1560, 8vo) by the humanist magistrate É. Pasquier (1529-1615). "Il se place au tout premier rang des grands prosateurs qui ont forgé la capacité de la langue française à l'analyse historique et politique, au maniement des idées" (En français...). Printer's mark on title.
Ref. Pettegree (FB) 42346. - Adams P-381. - STC French p. 340. - En français dans le texte (1st ed.).
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