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de.
12
mo.
VARILLAS,
Antoine.
Histoire de François Second par Monsieur Varillas. A
La Haye: chez
Adrian Moetjens,
1693.
First Edition. 12mo. 152 leaves; printer’s woodcut device on the title (Haeghen II. Moetjens 2).
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me.
2. v.
12
mo.
VARILLAS,
Antoine.
Histoire de Charles IX. Par le Sieur Varillas. Nouvelle Edition, enrichie à la fin de chaque Tome des principaux endroits qu’on a retranché dans l’Edition de Paris. Tome
Premier [-Second].
A
Cologne: chez
Pierre Marteau,
1686.
2 vol. 12mo. vol. I, 220 leaves; vol. II, 195 leaves; sphere device on the title-pages.
First printed in Paris in 1684.
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Histoire de France de Comines.
fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 11. no. 169, as above.
COMINES,
Philippe de, sieur d’argenton.
Les Memoires de Messire Philippe de Comines, Seignevr D’Argenton, Contenans l’Histoire des Roys Lovys XI. & Charles VIII. depuis l’an 1464. iusques en 1498. Revues &
corrigez sur diuers Manuscrits, & anciennes Impressions. Augmentez de plusieurs Traictez, Contracts, Testaments, autres Actes,
& de diuerses Obseruations. Par Denys Godefroy, Conseiller, & Historiographe ordinaire du Roy.
A
Paris: [
Sebastien Cramoisy] de
L’Imprimerie Royale,
1649.
Folio. 324 leaves and 2 double leaves with genealogies of the Kings of France and of Philip de Comines respectively, engraved royal arms on the title-page, engraved headpieces, initials and vignettes; Cramoisy’s name occurs
in the colophon.
Brunet II, page 191.
This edition not in Quérard.
This book was evidently not delivered to Congress with the rest of the library in 1815. In a working copy of the Library catalogue,
1815, it is not checked as present, and is one of a contemporary manuscript list headed:
Congress Library Books Missing.
Philippe de Comines, Sieur d’Argenton, c. 1445-c. 1511, French statesman and chronicler, was a native of Flanders. His
Memoires were first printed in part in 1525. This is the first edition edited by Denis Godefroy, 1615-1681, French historian.
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Histoire de Henri le grand de Prefixe.
12
mo
1815 Catalogue, page 11. no. 26, as above.
PÉRÉFIXE,
Hardouin de Beaumont de.
Histoire dv Roy Henry le Grand. Composée par Messire Hardovin de Péréfixe, Evesque de Rodez, cy-devant Precepteur du Roy. A
Paris: chez
Thomas Iolly,
1662.
YA 10396
12mo. 232 leaves: ã, A-S
12, T
4.
This edition not in Brunet and not in Quérard.
Hardouin de Beaumont de Péréfixe, 1605-1670, Archbishop of Paris, and member of the Académie Française, was at one time tutor to Louis XIV. The first edition
of this
Histoire was published in Paris by Edme Martin, in 4to., 1661. The book was frequently reprinted in Paris and in Amsterdam.
Henry IV, King of France, 1553-1610.
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