Frantzösische History : allerlay Religion und Wälthändlen, so sich under König Henrico II., Francisco II unnd Carolo IX. inn Franckreich biss auff gegenwärtige Zeyt erhörter unnd unerhörter Weiss sich habend zugetragen / Jetzund newlich auss lateinischer unnd frantzösischer in unsere gemeine teutsche Sprach verteutschet.

Accession number:

PML 197925.2

Author:

Serres, Jean de, 1540 - 1598.

Published:

[Basel] : [Samuel Apiarius], 1574.

Credit:

Purchased on the L.C. Harper D-1 Fund, 2018.

Description:

[4], cclxij, [5] leaves ; 33 cm. (fol.)

Notes:

Title page printed in red and black.
Printer from VD 16.

Binding:

16th-century German blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards. Tooled ownership inscription of Graf Günther von Schwarzburg-Sondershausen, 1585, and rolled narrative scenes from the life of Christ.

Variant Title:

Französische History

Provenance:

Johann Günther I von Schwarzburg-Sonderhausen (1532-1586), tooled binding inscription locating the book "in die librarey zu Sondershausen," 1585; Dessau (Saxony-Anhalt), Herzoglich Anhaltische Behörden-Bibliothek, stamp; Rainer Meyer, bookplate, 1984; Morgan Library & Museum, purchased on the L.C. Harper D-1 Fund, April 2018.

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Classification:

Binding Collection

Department:

Printed Books