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[France], Mézeray

A GENERAL CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY OF FRANCE, Beginning before the Reign of King Pharamond, And ending with the Reign of King Henry the Fourth: Containing both the Civil and the Ecclesiastical Transactions of that Kingdom.Translated by John Bulteel

by T. N. for Thomas Basset, Samuel Lowndes, Christopher - Wilkinson, William Cademan, and Jacob Tonson, 1683

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Year of publication
1683
Place of printing
London
Author
[France], Mézeray
Publishers
by T. N. for Thomas Basset, Samuel Lowndes, Christopher, Wilkinson, William Cademan, and Jacob Tonson
Edition
SCARCE FIRST EDITION IN COMPLETELY CONTEMPORARY BINDING AND
First edition
Yes

Description

First Edition in English. With an elaborately engraved title-page featuring four large portraits of Pharamond, Pepin, Hugh Capet and Henry IV within a field of knights' armour and fleurs-de-lys . Folio, 12.5" x 8", handsomely bound in full contemporary speckled calf, the spine with raised bands, fully and elaborately gilt tooled within the compartments, red morocco lettering label gilt, the covers with roll-tooled decoration in blind, double fillet rules to the borders. [vi], 968, [61] Table pp. A clean, crisp and unpressed copy, the binding strong and without repairs, light age evidence, a very beautifully preserved copy.
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