HISTOIRE GENERALE DE NORMANDIE. CONTENANT LES CHOSE MEMORABLES ADUENUES DEPUIS LES PREMIERES COURSES DES NORMANDS PAYENS, TANT EN FRANCE QU’AUX AUTRES PAYS, DE CEUS QUI S’EMPERANT DU PAYS DE NEUSTRIE SOUS CHARLES LE SIMPLE. AVEC L’HISTOIRE DE LEURS DUCS, LEUR GENEALOGIE, & LEURS CONQUESTES, TANT EN FRANCE, ITALIE, ANGLETERRE QU’EN ORIENT, IUSQUES A LA REUNION DE LA NORMANDIE A LA COURONNE DE FRANCE.
Rouen: Jean Osmont, 1631.
Quarto. Full Leather. First Edition of this 17th century History of Normandie. It collates complete EXCEPT the last leaf of the index is supplied in manuscript. Dedication; publication statement; sonnet; epigrams; Ode to the history of Normandy; “Discourses de la Normandie”; “De L’ancienne Normandie”; “Geneaologie des Ducs de Normandie”. ~[12] 56 [2] 564 52 [44]. Please note that the last leaf [43] is supplied in facsimile. Title page printed in red and black with the impressive vignette of the Arms of Normandy, with two leopards.~~In full contemporary calf, worn and with trivial loss. Edges of some pages worn with loss, not affecting text.
Good binding.
Item #292393
Price: $750.00