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Memoires de Messire Pierre de Bourdeille, Seigneur de Brantome : contenant les vies des dames illustres de France de son temps.

Accession number
PML 3227
Creator
Brantôme, Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de, d. 1614.
Published
A Leyde : Chez Jean Sambix le jeune, à la sphere, 1699.
Notes
Original set cited in Copinger, H.B. Elzevier Press, 538.
Reprint of the 5th vol. in the set of Mémoires. The first four vols. were printed in Amsterdam by the Elzeviers; the rest of the set of 9 vols. was printed by others, but all sold by Sambix at Leyden. Cf. Willems 1369.
Third ed.?--(Brunet I, 1211 cites 1665 and 1666).
This vol. is a line-by-line reprint of the 1665 edition, incontestably printed by Laurent Maurry at Rouen. Cf. Willems, p. 350.
Title-vignette: printer's mark.
Description
[6], 384 p. ; 14 cm
Provenance
With Mauchault arms; Written on first fly-leaf: Edward Hawkins Jnr.--Brit. Mus. 25 Sept. 1841; ... covers the arms of Louis Charles de Mauchault, seigneur D'Arnouville.
Binding
Black morocco, with Machault arms in dark brown morocco case.
Classification
Department