La vie de Messire Gaspar de Coligny, seigneur de Chastillon, admiral de France. A laquelle sont adiousté ses Memoires sur ce qui se passa au siege de S. Quentin.

Accession number: 
PML 78755
Author: 
Hotman, François, 1524-1590.
Published: 
Leyde, Chez Bonaventure & Abraham Elzevier, 1643.
Credit: 
Purchased Mrs. Charles Wrightsman.
Description: 
4 p. l., 143, 88 p. 14 cm
Notes: 

"Memoires de Gaspar de Coligny ... oú sont sommairement contenues les choses, qui sont passees durant le siege de S. Quintin, en l'an D.M.LVII" (with special t. p. and separate paging): 88 p. at end.
Published also under title: Memoires de Messire Gaspar de Coligny. Paris, 1665.
The original Latin: "Gasparis Colinii Castellonii, magni quondam Franciæ admirallii, vita [Genève?] 1575" has been attributed also to Jean de Serres. cf. D.Clement, Bibliothèque curieuse, vol. VII, p.229; J.Delaborde, Gaspard de Coligny, v.1, p.570; E.Haag, La France protestante, v.5, p.536, v.9, p.268, and 2.éd. t.4, col. 207, 210, 215; É.Picot, Catalogue .. James de Rothschild, v.3, p. 19-20, no.2177.
This edition does not contain the "Annotations sur la Vie de Messire Gaspar de Coligny ... traduite du latin de feu Jean Hotman ..." or the pieces which contain his defense upon the cause of the death of the Duke of Guise, found in the edition published in Amsterdam [Genève] "pour les heritiers Commelin," 1643. The dedication of the translator, signed D.L.H., is undated in the Amsterdam (Geneva) edition; in the Elzevier edition it is dated A Paris, ce.15. Nov. 1642.

Binding: 
Green straight-grain morocco gilt, smooth spine decorated in three tiers with an historiated roll of a Neoclassical frieze. (Bound by François-Marie Mairet or one of his pupils, Pierre Lorilliard or Hubert Pralon: see Ramsden.
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