[Rarebooks] FS: Du Tronchet's "Lettres Missives..." Lyon: 1606

[Kenneth Karmiole]

Du Tronchet, Etienne. LETTRES MISSIVES ET FAMILIERES D'Estienne Du Tronchet, Secretaire de la Royne  Mere du Roy... Reveues, Corrigees & Augmentees de Plusieures Lettres Amoureuses, Tirees Tant d'Italien du Bembe... Lyon: Jean Didier. 1606. 16mo. ff.(16),400. Large woodcut device on title. Large woodcut portrait of the author on the verso of A8. Orig. vellum, rather soiled. Very faint embossed library stamp at outer corner of title.    $450.00 (trade discount allowed)
A very popular work, of French letters on the courts and courtiers. Du Tronchet's (1510-1585) LETTRES MISSIVES was first printed in 1569; 45 editions were printed 1567-1633.

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