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BOUCHE (Honoré). La Chorographie ou Description de Provence et l'histoire chronologique du même pays. Paris, Rollin fils, 1736. 2 volumes in-folio, (20 of which the 2nd is blank)-360 [of which the last 2 are blank]-30-574 [i.e. pp. 361 to 808, 4 pp. with double numbering 809-810 to 815-816, pp. 817 to 938]-(9 of which the last 3 are blank) + (10 of which the 2nd and last are blank)-1073-(15 of which the last is blank)-36 pp., including an intermediate title printed in red and black at the date of the original; spine ribbed, partitioned and decorated with flowers, with brown and garnet title-pieces, filleted edges, inner gilt border; bindings a little worn, spines split, one restored (contemporary binding). PARTLY FIRST EDITION. It includes the leaves of the original edition (Aix, Charles David, 1664) but with renewed general titles and address labels pasted on the intermediate titles, and includes an enrichment of 2 series of "additions": 30 pp. to the "history" and "chrography" parts in vol. I, and 36 pp. to the "history" section in vol. II (not to be confused with the additions already included in the text of the original edition). ILLUSTRATION ENGRAVED ON COPPER: title-frontispiece off-text (with the address of the first edition), and about 70 compositions in the text, including 2 full-page, representing monuments, coins, coats of arms, and a map of the islands of Lérins. With a wood-engraved portrait in the text. ONE OF THE FATHERS OF PROVENçAL HISTORIOGRAPHY, ABBE HONORE BOUCHE (1598-1671), was a priest from Aix-en-Provence with a doctorate in theology, who settled in Barrême in what is now the department of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence. A protégé of the scholar Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (who had himself worked on Provençal history, without publishing), he devoted a great deal of effort to writing this Chorographie, in which he offers a geographical description and above all a history of Provence, based on a critical reading of the sources and historiographers who had gone before him. He offered his manuscript to the States of Provence, who had it printed at their own expense in 1664. He also left works on religious subjects. Provenance: Edward Taylor (armorial bookplate). - Provenance: collection of the Earls of Crawford and Balcarres, Alexander William and James Ludovic Lindsay (armorial bookplate stamp Bibliotheca Lindesiana).
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