[Rarebooks] FS: 2 scarce 17th c. French history texts

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[Courtily, Gatien de, Sieur de Sandras]. HISTOIRE DES PROMESSES ILLUSOIRES 
DEPUIS LA PAIX DES PIRENEES. Cologne (The Hague?): Louis Clou-Neuf. 1684. First 
edition. 12mo. 212pp. BOUND WITH: [Le Noble, Pierre (supposed author). L’OMBRE 
DU MARQUIS DE LOUVOIS, CONSULTE’E PAR LOUIS XIV. Sur les Affaires Presentes. 
Cologne: Pierre Marteau. 1695. 12mo. 96pp. Cont. mottled calf, gilt decorated 
spine, spine label lacking.     $600.00 (trade discount allowed)
Sandras de Courtily (1644-1712) wrote many fictionalized histories and 
biographies that later became the sources for the works of Alexander Dumas. The 
second work is not recorded in OCLC.

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