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[VALDORY (Guillaume). Discours du siège de la ville de Rouen…
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408
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[VALDORY (Guillaume). Discours du siège de la ville de Rouen…
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Estimate €60 - €80
Voluntary lot
Description
[VALDORY (Guillaume). Discours du siège de la ville de Rouen: Au mois de Novembre, mil cinq cens quatre vingts onze. Avec le pourtraict du Vieil & nouveau Fort. Rouen, Richard L'Allemant, sd [1592].
Small in-8, of [10]-149-[1] ff. Wood-engraved headbands, lettering and tailpieces, one folding h.-t. map (here in facsimile). Mottled tan calf, spine ribbed and decorated (early 18th c. binding). Headcap missing, some wear to jaws. Restored title leaf with loss of handwritten letters, several other paper restorations in the inner margins without affecting the text. Paper slightly browned in places.
First edition of this account published only a fortnight after the events of the siege of Rouen, written by the captain of the town's burghers, who led the defence during the siege led by Henri IV in 1591, during the Eighth War of Religion, and who was subsequently promoted to Lieutenant General of the Viscount of Rouen for his loyal services.
Complete with last errata leaf. Original pagination errors (gaps between ff. 36 and 39 and ff. 46 and 49).
A rare work, especially when complete with the beautiful woodcut folding plate with printed caption: "Portraict du vieil et nouveau fort de Saincte Catherine". It is included here but in the form of a facsimile copy.
"The author of this work, which has become rare, did not name himself on the title, but signed the dedicatory epistle addressed to the poet Desportes" (Brunet). (Barbier, I, 1014; Hauser, IV, 3007; Frère, II, 586; Lormier, V, 4280; Brunet, V, 1033). Ex-libris JM.
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