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a brown leather book with gold trimming and gold trimmingan old book with a picture of a man riding a horse
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96 - [URFÉ (Honoré d’)]. FAUCHET (Claude).
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Estimate €8,000 - €10,000
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[URFÉ (Honoré d’)]. FAUCHET (Claude). Les Antiquitez gauloises et françoises. Expanded to include three further volumes: covering events in Gaul and France up to the year seven hundred and fifty-one AD. Paris, Jérémie Perier, 1599. 2 parts in one in-8 volume, brown morocco, double gilt fillet binding, fleurons at the corners, ribbed spine with gilt panels and fleurons, gilt interior lace, gilt edges (Thibaron-Echaubard). 26 unnumbered folios, 228 numbered folios – 180 numbered folios Second edition, partly original; the first appeared in 1579 in quarto format. A fine copy formerly owned by Honoré D’Urfé (1567–1625), bearing his handwritten bookplate at the bottom of the title page: Ex libris Honorati D’Urfé 1604 as well as a note in his own hand at the bottom of the last page concerning Claude Faucher: This author is a most diligent researcher of antiquity, particularly regarding names and dates, but he declares himself biased against the authority of the Popes, although I do not consider him a heretic.  A notable provenance, as Claude Fauchet’s *Antiquitez* is one of the key sources for *L’Astrée*. “Almost all his historical knowledge comes from this book”, A. Adam.  From the library of Joseph Renard of Lyon (1822–1882), with bookplate (1881, no. 1224).  A. Adam. *History of French Literature in the 17th Century*, I, p. 124. – Cioranescu 9832.
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Auction time 09/30/2026 at 2:00 PM
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