[Rarebooks] FS: Two historical French biographies bound together. 1662 & 1660

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(FRANCE) [Dupuy, Pierre et al]. RECUEIL DE DIVERSES PIECES, SERVANS A L’
HISTOIRE DE HENRY III. ROY DE FRANCE ET DE POLOGNE. Don’t les Tiltres se Trouvent 
en la Page Suivante. Cologne: Chez Pierre du Marteau. 1662. 12mo. 462pp. BOUND 
WITH (as published?): [Estienne, Henry ?]. DISCOURS MERVEILLEUX DE LA VIE, 
ACTIONS & DEPORTMENS DE LA ROYNE CATHARINE DE MEDICIS, Mere de Francois II. 
Charles IX. Henry III. Rois de France. The Hague: Chez Adrian Vlacq. 1660. 180pp. 
Cont. vellum, lightly soiled.     $475.00 (trade discount allowed)
The first work, “Recueil de Diverses Pieces” is a forgery originally 
published by Jean Elzevier in 1660. It went through 4 editions by 1666, and all have 
the same fictitious imprint and was probably published in Amsterdam. The 
second work, “Discours Merveilleux...” was first published in 1575.

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