MELVILLE, James - Lot 56

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MELVILLE, James - Lot 56
MELVILLE, James Historical memoirs, containing several very important events, and which are not found in other historians; mainly in relation to England and Scotland, under the reigns of Elizabeth, Mary Stuart, and James I. Lyon, Jean Bruyset, 1694. 2 vols. in-12, (22) ff, 383 pp.; (1) ff, 340 pp., (24) ff, brown stockings, smooth backs decorated with gold thread, rubbed legal headdresses, qqs. small epid. ASCOLI n°860. First French edition. Compound memories for the instruction of his children. After having been in the service of the Constable of Montmorency and in Germany at the court of the Elector Palatine, he was private counsellor and gentleman of the chamber under Mary Stuart. His successor, the future King of England under the name of James I, employed him mainly in the administration of finance.
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