Beschreibung:

Histoire et chronique memorable de messire Jehan Froissart, reveu et corrig� ... par Denis Sauvage de Fontenailles, 4 volumes in 1, Paris: Gervais Mallot, 1574, woodcut title devices, headpieces and initials, damp-staining to first gathering, repairs to title page verso and to margin of volume 1 leaf a3 obscuring one letter in headline, contemporary ownership inscription 'Henry Cobham, 1581' to title page (see note), contemporary calf, rebacked, gilt arabesque lozenges to sides, sides pitted and restored, folio (34 x 21 cm), together with Ambrose (Saint), [Omnia quotquot extant opera], volumes 1-3 (of 5) in 1, Basel: Froben, 1538,woodcut title- and colophon devices, historiated initials, incomplete (lacking volume 1 quire AA: replaced in a combination of printed and old manuscript facsimile), marginal damp-staining, mild browning, old blind-stamped calf over wooden boards, rebacked and extensively restored on front board, worn, folio (33.5 x 21.5 cm), Videl (Louis), Histoire de la vie du Connestable de Lesdiguieres, 1st edition, Paris: Pierre Rocolet, 1637, incomplete (lacking engraved portrait), marginal damp-staining to initial leaves, bookplate of novelist John Fowles (1926-2005) to front pastedown and of John Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle (1662-1711) to title page verso, old calf, worn, folio (35.5 x 24 cm) Adams F1067-8 for two other issues of this edition of Froissart; B937 for Ambrose (this edition was edited by Erasmus). Provenance (Froissart): likely ownership inscription of Sir Henry Cobham (1537-1592), English ambassador to France from 1579 to 1583. (3)