[Rarebooks] FS: Comines memoirs edited by Sauvage. Geneva: 1593

[Kenneth Karmiole]

Comines, Philippe de, Seigneur d'Argenton. LES MEMOIRES DE MESSIRE PHILIPPE DE COMMINES... sur les Faicts & Gestes Abbregees, de Loys XI. & Charles VIII. Son Fils, Rois de France. Avec la Vie de Mess: Angelo Cattho, Archeuesque de Vienne: Plus Deux Epistres de Jean Sleidan... Le Tout Reveu & Corrige de Nouveau. Item, un Indice... (Geneva): Pour Jacques Chouet [De l'Imprimerie de Antoine Blanc]. 1593. 12mo. (38),854pp. Index. With the final blank leaf. Title within a woodcut border. Illustrated with 3 copper engraved portraits, with descriptive text, on two leaves within the "Prologue." These 2 leaves are often lacking. Cont. limp vellum, hand lettered spine, some old soiling, leather ties lacking. Title page with some soiling (bleed through from a portion of an old inked armorial stamp on verso). Text with some light browning from an old faded water stain. Cont. ownership signature at bottom blank margin of title page.    $600.00  (trade discount allowed)
A new edition of the revised version of Comines' work edited by Denis Sauvage (1520?-1587?). Adams C2461. Not in BL French STC.

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