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L'HOSPITAL (Chancellor de)
Memoirs of Monsieur le Chancelier de L’Hospital: Containing several treaties of peace, appanages, marriages, neutrality, acknowledgements, feuds and homages, and other rights of sovereignty
Pierre Ap Egmont, Cologne, 1672.
In 18°. Full binding in light-coloured, grained sheepskin. Ribbed spine, decorated with gilt metalwork and fleurons. Red edges. 253 pp and 3 unnumbered pages for the Table of Contents.
Title page very slightly trimmed. Printed in Brussels, despite the title page stating it was printed in Cologne.
First edition.
Included:
Charles I of England:
The Portrait of the King of Great Britain: drawn by his own hand during his solitude and suffering. Second edition, corrected and expanded with several pieces in His Majesty’s style.
Rouen. Published by Jean Berthelin, 1649.
In 18°. Full contemporary binding in fawn sheepskin. Ribbed spine, decorated with gilt metalwork and fleurons. Leather missing from the lower panel. A small defect on the headband.
[52]-442-[2] pages. Woodcut frontispiece.
The title page begins with ‘Eikon Basileke’ printed in Greek characters. Long attributed to Charles I himself, then claimed by John Gauden according to F. Madan. Translated into French by D.
Cailloué, revised by Porrée (who also authored the epistle to Charles II, p. [15]) based on F. Madan. Permission granted by the Parliament of Rouen on 19 June 1649.
Published in 1649, the year of King Charles I’s execution; this work contributed significantly to the myth of the martyred king.
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