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41 - François Du CHESNE.
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Estimate €150 - €200
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François Du CHESNE. History of the Popes and Sovereign Heads of the Church, containing the most remarkable events that have occurred under the authority of the Holy Apostolic See, from Saint Peter, the first Roman Pontiff, to Innocent X, who reigns today. All faithfully compiled from various historians, and from numerous treatises, memoirs and chronicles by the late Monsieur Du Chesne,... and subsequently revised, corrected and enriched with lifelike portraits of the figures concerned, and their epitaphs,... by François Du Chesne, his son. In Paris, published by Nicolas and Jean de la Coste, 1653, 2 folio volumes bound in restored full sheepskin and imitation leather. Illustrated with a frontispiece titleplate engraved by Léonard Gaultier, a coat-of-arms vignette on the title page engraved by Briot, a full-page portrait of Cardinal de Retz, to whom the work is dedicated, engraved by Nanteuil, and a large number of wood-engraved portraits of pontiffs within the text; handwritten inscriptions in the margins; signs of damp; the first and last leaves of volume 1 skilfully restored at the margins. Appraiser: Cabinet Valleriaux [email protected] Please request the condition reports: they are not included in the descriptions.
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About the sale I – Antique books: Literature – Illustrated works – Costumes – Paris.
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Auction time 09/28/2026 at 2:00 PM
Ref. : 8610 - 68
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