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Prima pars Tractatus de origine, progressu et excellentia regni & monarchiae Francorum, & coronae Franciae / authore Do. Carolo Molinaeo ...

Accession number
PML 15451
Creator
Du Moulin, Charles, 1500-1566.
Published
Lugduni : Ad Salamandrae, apud Claudium Sennetonium, 1564.
Description
134, [14] p. (the last [2] p. blank) ; 24 cm (4to)
Notes
Includes index.
No additional parts published. First appeared in French, 1561.
Binding
16th-century French (Lyon) black calf, gold tooled in interlace and foliate pattern, parts painted in silver (oxidized), and pointille background; repaired/rebacked.
Inscriptions/Markings
4 leaves of 16th/17th-century manuscript notes at back, including a life of St. Thomas of Canterbury.
Provenance
Montgazin, signature (title page); Firmin-Ambroise Didot, booklabel (front endleaf 1 recto), his sale, Paris, 1854, lot 437; Librairie Damascene Morgand, no. 19132; Pierpont Morgan, purchased from Rahir, May 1907.
Classification
Century
Department