Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

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Hurault, Le recueil des excellens et libres discours sur l'estat present de la France, red morocco armorial binding for the Duc de Sully

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 GBP

Lot Details

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HURAULT, MICHEL. Le recueil des excellens et libres discours sur l'estat present de la France. Imprimé nouuellement. [La Rochelle: Jêrome Haultin], 1598


A FINE ARMORIAL BINDING FOR THE DUC DE SULLY, Maximilien-François de Béthune (1559-1641), adviser to Henri IV and, among other posts, grand master of artillery. 

12mo (145 x 75 mm). Roman and italic types, 28 lines plus headline. collation: ã4 A-N12 O6 Aa-Ee12 Ff6. Woodcut printer’s device on title. (Slight stain on first few leaves.)


binding: Armorial binding (146 x 82 mm) for the Duke of Sully (OHR 441), dark red morocco gilt, outer frame of 3 gilt fillets and gilt dots, upper cover in oval arms of Béthune supported by lions, surmounted by ducal crown and with 2 crossed canons below, lower cover in oval his emblem, eagle in air holding lightning bolt with "Quo jussa Jovis" [Guigard II, 54], flat spine gilt in 5 compartments with similar fillet and dot design, title in gilt in second compartment. (Spine ends renewed, a few minor neat repairs.)


provenance: Maximilien-François de Béthune, duc de Sully (1559-1641), arms on binding—Édouard Rahir, Paris, book label, his sale, Étienne Ader, Henri Baudoin & Francisque Lefrançois, Paris, Quatrième partie, 5–7 May 1936, lot 1155—André Langlois (1873–1975), book label. acquisition: Purchased in 1997 from Librairie Sourget, Chartres. references: USTC 13842

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