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157 - LE GENDRE (Louis) (1655–1733). Life of Cardinal d’Amboise, P…
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LE GENDRE (Louis) (1655–1733). Life of Cardinal d’Amboise, Prime Minister to Louis XII. With a comparison of famous cardinals who have governed states... Rouen, Machuel, 1726, in-4, 6 unnumbered folios – 564 pp. – 3 plates. Brown calfskin, ribbed spine, richly decorated panels, red title label, marbled edges. (Contemporary binding). – A copy with wide margins, presumably printed on large-format paper. An additional title leaf, in two colours, has been bound at the end. Ex-libris bearing the coat of arms of a prelate (18th century). Worn caps, one split clasp, leather slightly rubbed. A few rare and minute stains inside. Edition identical to that of 1724. There is also an edition dated Amsterdam, 1726. Portraits of the cardinal and the author, engraved by Scotin; a folded plate depicting the cardinal’s tomb, also engraved by Scotin. The biography runs to 388 pages and provides information on the government of France at the end of the 15th and the beginning of the 16th centuries, particularly regarding the Italian Wars. Cardinal d’Amboise also reformed the law. This is followed by a genealogy of the House of Amboise, the text of the treaty of alliance against the Venetians, the cardinal’s will, ‘details of the illness and funeral of the legate d’Amboise recorded by one of his servants…’, a description of his tomb, a description of the bell known as ‘Georges d’Amboise’, etc. (Hauser, S.H.F. I, no. 374 not in Conlon – Frère II, p. 195).
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