Lot no. 171
[MAILLES Jacques de]. Histoire du chevalier Bayard [...] et plusieurs choses mémorable advenues en France, Itamie Espagne, & és Pays bas. Pet. in-4 (25,5 x 18,5 cm), bradel paper boards, spine muted, edges trimmed (early 19th c. binding). Portrait, [9] ff. 468 p., [8] ff. Second edition published three years after the first. Annotated and modernised by Théodore Godefroy. Portrait of the knight Bayard engraved on copperplate outside the text. A large paper copy presented to General de Gaulle and bearing this letter: "The book is presented in homage to General de Gaulle by the English who recognise in him the Loyal Servant of eternal France, on the eleventh of February MCMXLIII. Handwritten bookplate Nicolas Godefroy Kraenner on the first white endpaper, initials P. G. on the title leaf. Handwritten note in English on the Chevalier Bayard and the work. Binding a little rubbed, especially the spines and the spine, sewing straps broken after the title f., but body of the book solid and solid. Bibliography: Brunet, III, 183.
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