BRANTOME, Pierre de Bourdeille (seigneur de). - OEuvres du seigneur de Brantome. Nouvelle édition, considérablement augmentée, & accompagnée de Remarques historiques & critiques.- A La Haye, aux dépens du Libraire, 1740.- 15 volumes small in-12; porphyry calf, smooth spines decorated with gilt fillets, fleurons and motifs, triple framing of gilt fillets on the covers, gilt fillet on the edges, marbled edges (Binding of the period). The most complete and elegant of the early editions of Brantome, it is decorated with 15 frontispieces (including the portrait of the author in the last volume), it is also accompanied by seven folding genealogical tables placed in the last volume. A pleasant copy in a decorative contemporary binding.