Lot n° 55
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MATTHIEU, Pierre - Lot 55
MATTHIEU, Pierre
History of Louys XI, King of France. And memorable things happened in Europe during his twenty-two years of reign. Enriched with several observations that serve as comments. Divided into eleven books. Paris, Mathieu
Guillemot, 1628. In-4, (16) ff, 751 pp., (8) ff, qqs. wetted and light marginal spots, qqs. ff. yellowed, dusty ivory wove vellum, small missing lower back, one corner damaged.
LELONG 17334. The author, a former ligueur who had rallied to Henry
IV, was rewarded with the position of historiographer of France since 1595, replacing Du Haillan. He was also a poet and playwright. He dedicated the first edition in 1610 to King Henry
IV. Sorel (p. 138 of the Bibliothèque françoise) says ''that he wrote it on various memoirs of the first authors; but that he filled it with flowers of rhetoric and state reasoning.
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