Parlement: contenant l’Histoire de la Regence d’Anne d’Autriche, & des premières années de la Majorité de Louis XIV. jusqu’en
1666. avec les intrigues du Cardinal de Retz à la Cour. Tome Premier [Seconde]. A
Amsterdam: chez
Jean Frederic Bernard,
1718.
DC130.R4[;] DC130.J7A18
Together 5 vol. 12mo. and 8vo.; titles in red and black.
Two editions of the
Mémoires du Cardinal de Retz were published in
Amsterdam in 1718, without name of printer. Copies of both are in the Library of Congress, but it is not possible to know which edition
was in the Jefferson collection.
Jean François Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz, 1614-1679, French churchman and agitator. The first edition of his
Mémoires appeared in Nancy in 1717.
Guy Joly, fl. 1648-1665, French historian. The
Mémoires de Mr. Joli are usually found with this edition. In later editions of the
Mémoires du Cardinal de Retz the memoirs of Gui Joli and of Marie de Longeville, duchesse de Nemours, were added, 7 volumes in all.
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71
Memoires de comte de Forbin.
2. v.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 12. no. 30, as above.
FORBIN,
Claude, comte de.
Mémoires du comte de Forbin, chef d’escadre, chevalier de l’Ordre Militaire de Saint Louis. Tome Premier [-Second]. A
Amsterdam: chez
François Girardi,
1730.
DC130 .F6A3 1730
First Edition. 2 vols. 12mo. vol. I, 194 leaves; vol. II, 174 leaves; engraved portrait frontispiece in vol. I; phoenix device
on the titles, titles and half-titles printed in red and black.
Claude, Comte de Forbin, 1656-1733, French naval commander. His Memoirs, edited by Simon Reboulet and Louis Daniel Lecomte, and first printed in 1729, supply interesting information with regard to the navy in the time of Louis XIV.
Simon Reboulet, 1687-1752, French historian.
Louis Daniel Lecomte, 1655-1728, French abbé and historian.
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72
Memoires de Brantome des Capitaines François.
2. v.
24
s.
1815 Catalogue, page 12. no. 32, as above, 2 v 16.
BRANTÔME,
Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de.
Mémoires de Messire Pierre de Bourdeille, Seigneur de Brantôme, Contenant les Vies des Hommes illustres & grands Capitaines François de son temps. Premiere [-Quatrième] Partie. A
Leyde: chez
Jean Sambix le Jeune, à la Sphere,
1699.
4 parts in 2 vol. 12mo. part I, 212 leaves; part III, 223 leaves; part IV, 177 leaves; woodcut sphere device on the title-pages;
no copy of part II was available for collation.
This edition not in the Elzevirian bibliographies and not in Quérard.
Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur et abbé de Brantôme, c. 1540-1614, French historian and biographer.
Les Vies des Hommes illustres et grands Capitaines François was first published with the Sambix imprint, actually by Daniel Elzevir, in 1666. It forms part of a set of which the other
volumes contain
Les Vies des dames illustres
,
Les Vies des dames galantes
and
Les Vies des hommes illustres & grands capitaines estrangers de son temps
.
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