Memoires de Messire Pierre de Bourdeille, Seigneur de Brantome, Contenant Les Vies des Hommes Illustres et grands Capitaines Francois de son temps. A Leyde, chez Jean Sambix le Jeune, 1699.
Memoirs of Sir Pierre de Bourdeille, Lord of Brantôme, Containing the Lives of Illustrious Men and Great French Captains of His Time. In Leiden, at Jean Sambix the Younger, 1699.
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A beautiful set, finely contemporaneously bound in full calf, very much in the Louis XVI manner. A very attractive set.
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This work by Pierre de Bourdeille, also known as Seigneur de Brantôme, is a collection of memoirs which blends historical narrative with personal anecdotes, providing a detailed account of the important figures of this time period in France, including King Henry IV and Admiral Coligny, etc.
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Size: 83 x 139 mm (approx., each)
Condition:
[t.p., *2-*3, 1ff., 416pp.]; [t.p., 1ff., 400pp.]; [t.p., 1ff., 442pp.]; [t.p., 350pp., 1ff.]
Contemporary full calf with gilt titles and decorative designs to spines in the style of Louis XVI. All boards securely attached with rubbing along joints. Small losses to backstrips at the heads and bottoms of spines. Boards rubbed and scuffed. Shelf and edge wear. Page edges red with some spots of loss. Ink ownership inscription to front pastedown in all volumes. Endpapers offset. Text blocks very clean with light toning and occasional foxing. Table in volume four bound in the rear rather than in the front like in volumes one to three.
[OCLC 11192971].
