BOUCHET, Jean - The Annals of Aquitaine.... - Lot 202 - Oger - Blanchet

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BOUCHET, Jean - The Annals of Aquitaine.... - Lot 202 - Oger - Blanchet
BOUCHET, Jean - The Annals of Aquitaine. Faicts & gestes en sommaire des Roys de France, & d'Angleterre, & païs de Naples & de Milan: reveuës & corrigées par l'autheur mesmes jusqu'en l'an mil cinq cens cinquante & sept. Poitiers, Enguilbert de Marnef, 1557. folio, (16), 378 ff. ruled, typographical mark on title, large woodcut on verso, italics, some marg. spotting, contemporary fawn calf, gilt thread on boards, medallion in centre, spine ribbed and rebound (hinges and headpieces redone), some epid. TCH II, 45. SHF V, 5399. The first edition in 1524 was also published in Poitiers by de Marnef. The work was continuously republished until 1644. The first edition stopped at 1519, this one goes until 1556. Last edition seen by the dead author between April 1557 and the end of 1559. History rather of the whole kingdom of France than of Aquitaine. For the contemporary period, he entered the service of the house of la Trémoille, he extends especially on the exploits of Louis de la Trémoille in Brittany and in Italy. The end of the work has the character of a diary and a local chronicle, generally accurate.
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