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8 - BOUCHET (Jean). The Annals of Aquitaine… Poitiers, Abraham M…
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BOUCHET (Jean). The Annals of Aquitaine… Poitiers, Abraham Mounin, 1644. Folio, 29 x 19.5 cm, 17 folios, 666 pages, 1 blank folio, frontispiece, contemporary binding in brown calfskin, ribbed spine decorated with fleurons and gilt fillets. Bound together: • Jean de LA HAYE. The Memoirs and Researches of France, and of Aquitaine… Ibid., the same, 1643. 70 pp. • [Jean FILLEAU]. On the University of the City of Poictiers, the time of its foundation, the rector, and the officers and privileges of the said university… Ibid., idem, 1643. 2 parts, 5 ff., 58 pp. & 9 ff., 18 pp. (numbered 59–[76]), 3 ff. • Jean FILLEAU. The historical evidence for the litanies of the great Queen of France, Saint Radegonde, containing a summary of the miraculous deeds of her life… Ibid., idem, 1643. 204 pp. The most complete edition of Jean Bouchet’s most important work, a veritable chronicle of French history, first published in 1524, presented here by the renowned Poitiers-based publisher Abraham Mounin. First editions of the *Preuve des litanies…* of Saint Radegonde and the second part of the work on the University of Poitiers, by Jean Filleau. Illustrated with a frontispiece title page bearing the coat of arms of the Duke of La Rochefoucauld, to whom the edition is dedicated, and a frontispiece portrait of the author by Bachelier; as well as a frontispiece portrait of Saint Radegonde and a plate in *La Preuve des litanies…*, all finely engraved in intaglio. A fine copy. Early signature ‘B. des Clairets’ on the title page. Foxing and some water stains; many leaves uniformly browned. Missing the flying endpapers. Binding previously restored in a rudimentary manner. Spine split with small losses. - Expert: Cédric and Ithier de FOUGEROLLE
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