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JUVÉNAL DES URSINS, Jean (ou Jouvenel des Ursins) - Histoire…
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159
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JUVÉNAL DES URSINS, Jean (ou Jouvenel des Ursins) - Histoire…
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Estimate €300
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Description
JUVÉNAL DES URSINS, Jean (ou Jouvenel des Ursins) - Histoire de Charles VI, roy de France, et des choses mémorables advenües de son règne, dès l'an MCCCLXXX jusques en l'an MCCCCXXII , par... Jean Juvénal Des Ursins,... brought to light by Théodore Godefroy. Paris, Abraham Pacard, 1614. In-4, (4) ff, 16, 599 pp. (7) ff, some angular spotting, paper a little yellowed, ep. flap vellum, traces of cordon, small stains on first board.
BRUNET V, 1018. BOSSUAT 5024. SAFFROY I, 11548. First edition, given by Théodore Godefroy. At the end of the preface is a quatrain in Latin by Michel de l'Hôpital addressed to the Cardinal de Tournon in which he declares that he is no less charmed by the reading of French historians than by that of the ancient Greeks. Jouvenel des Ursins (1388-1473), archbishop of Bourges, councillor at the Châtelet, provost of merchants and president of the Poitiers parliament, witnessed and often played a part in the events he recounts. He was sometimes critical, for example of the behaviour of the impetuous youth at the Battle of Azincourt. Includes with a separate title: De l'Origine des Roys de Portugal, issus en ligne masculine de la Maison de France, qui regne aujourd'huy. Idem, 16 pp. This booklet was sold separately and is added here. Handwritten bookplate from Montesquieu's library: ''Ex biblioth. D. praesidis Montesquieu. Cat. inscript.''
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