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
Rare and modern books
[France], Mézeray
by T. N. for Thomas Basset, Samuel Lowndes, Christopher - Wilkinson, William Cademan, and Jacob Tonson,
1683
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
Rare and modern books
[France], Mézeray
by T. N. for Thomas Basset, Samuel Lowndes, Christopher - Wilkinson, William Cademan, and Jacob Tonson,
1683
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Details
- 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
- True
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.
