Lot no. 88
LE LABOUREUR (Jean). Histoire de Charles VI, roy de France, escrite par les ordres et sur les mémoires de Guy de Monceaux et de Philippes de Villette, abbez de Saint-Denys, par un autheur contemporain, religieux de leur abbaye. Translated from the Latin manuscript by M. Le Laboureur, and illustrated by himself with several commentaries drawn from all the originals of this reign. Paris, Billaine, 1663. 2 vol. in-folio, marbled calf, ornamented ribbed spines, title and tom. pages, double gilt fillet framing the boards, DB figure at the corners and repeated at the entrenerfs (period binding). Bindings worn, headpieces torn off, corners dulled, jaws split, spotting. I. 34 ff. n.ch. (title, dedication, preface, table of books and chapters and notice to the reader), 132 pp. (Mémoires pour servir d'introduction à l'Histoire du règne de Charles VI et Tables généalogiques de tous les descendants de Charles VI), pp. 1-540 ; II. [2] ff. pp. 541-1044, 167 pp. (History of Charles VI by Jean Le Fèvre, known as de St. Rémy) & [17] pp. (Table of families mentioned in the History of Charles VI and errata), [2] ff. (Catalogue of Louis Billaine). Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Charles VI by N. de l'Armes, a copper-engraved plate out of the text, and numerous wood-engraved bands, lettrines and culs-de-lampe. Light marginal foxing in places, corner of 4 introductory ff. gnawed with major loss (without affecting the letter), scattered foxing. Handwritten bookplate F. de Joncières. On the cipher of the Collège de Beauvais in Paris, with printed and handwritten price list on the flyleaf.
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