SERRES, Jean de (1540-1598)]. La vie de messire Gaspar de Colligny seigneur de Chastillon, Admiral de France. A laquelle sont ajoustés ses mémoires sur ce qui se passa au siege de S. Quentin . Translated by François Hotman. Leiden: Bonaventure and Abraham Elzevier, 1643.
SERRES, Jean de (1540-1598)]. La vie de messire Gaspar de Colligny seigneur de Chastillon, Admiral de France. A laquelle sont ajoustés ses mémoires sur ce qui se passa au siege de S. Quentin . Translated by François Hotman. Leiden: Bonaventure and Abraham Elzevier, 1643. 2 parts in one volume, 12° (121 x 64mm). Wood-engraved printer's device on titles, headpieces and initials. (Tiny adhesion marks on a12v and b1r affecting a few letters, very short repaired marginal tear to b1 with the loss of one letter.) 18th-century citron morocco, gilt spine with squirrel centrepiece in compartments, red morocco gilt spine label, gilt turn-ins, marbled-endpapers, gilt edges (extremities faintly rubbed). Provenance : CHARLES MAURICE DE TALLEYRAND-PÉRIGORD (1754-1838, ink ownership inscription on flyleaf; sale 1816, lot 2347) -- Arthur Atherley (1772-1844, MP, engraved armorial bookplate) -- Edward Heron-Allen FRS (1861-1943; his Bibliotheca Elzeviriana bookplate, with a an incorrect note in his hand regarding attribution of the binding to Talleyrand) -- A.L. McLaughlin (modern armorial bookplate on rear pastedown) -- Sotheby's Monaco 7 October 1980, lot 1531 (part lot). FAMOUS BIOGRAPHY of Admiral Gaspard de Coligny, a Huguenot leader during the the French religious wars. It was first published in Latin in 1575: the French translation is by François Hotman, to whom the book was once attributed. 'Ce petit volume, parfaitement exécuté, est un des plus recherchés de la collection elzevirienne' (Willems). Gaspard de Coligny was murdered in Paris on 22 August 1572, at the beginning of the St Bartholomew's Day massacre. A SUPERB COPY, in 18th-century citron morocco, with a squirrel gilt on spine; it was once attributed to Fouquet. The copy later belonged to the famous 'Lame Devil', Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord. Once a priest, and even the bishop of Autun (Burgundy), Talleyrand served many regimes, notably Napoleon's empire for which he was the principal Foreign Minister, before betraying him for the restored Bourbon king. Willems, 564
SERRES, Jean de (1540-1598)]. La vie de messire Gaspar de Colligny seigneur de Chastillon, Admiral de France. A laquelle sont ajoustés ses mémoires sur ce qui se passa au siege de S. Quentin . Translated by François Hotman. Leiden: Bonaventure and Abraham Elzevier, 1643.
SERRES, Jean de (1540-1598)]. La vie de messire Gaspar de Colligny seigneur de Chastillon, Admiral de France. A laquelle sont ajoustés ses mémoires sur ce qui se passa au siege de S. Quentin . Translated by François Hotman. Leiden: Bonaventure and Abraham Elzevier, 1643. 2 parts in one volume, 12° (121 x 64mm). Wood-engraved printer's device on titles, headpieces and initials. (Tiny adhesion marks on a12v and b1r affecting a few letters, very short repaired marginal tear to b1 with the loss of one letter.) 18th-century citron morocco, gilt spine with squirrel centrepiece in compartments, red morocco gilt spine label, gilt turn-ins, marbled-endpapers, gilt edges (extremities faintly rubbed). Provenance : CHARLES MAURICE DE TALLEYRAND-PÉRIGORD (1754-1838, ink ownership inscription on flyleaf; sale 1816, lot 2347) -- Arthur Atherley (1772-1844, MP, engraved armorial bookplate) -- Edward Heron-Allen FRS (1861-1943; his Bibliotheca Elzeviriana bookplate, with a an incorrect note in his hand regarding attribution of the binding to Talleyrand) -- A.L. McLaughlin (modern armorial bookplate on rear pastedown) -- Sotheby's Monaco 7 October 1980, lot 1531 (part lot). FAMOUS BIOGRAPHY of Admiral Gaspard de Coligny, a Huguenot leader during the the French religious wars. It was first published in Latin in 1575: the French translation is by François Hotman, to whom the book was once attributed. 'Ce petit volume, parfaitement exécuté, est un des plus recherchés de la collection elzevirienne' (Willems). Gaspard de Coligny was murdered in Paris on 22 August 1572, at the beginning of the St Bartholomew's Day massacre. A SUPERB COPY, in 18th-century citron morocco, with a squirrel gilt on spine; it was once attributed to Fouquet. The copy later belonged to the famous 'Lame Devil', Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord. Once a priest, and even the bishop of Autun (Burgundy), Talleyrand served many regimes, notably Napoleon's empire for which he was the principal Foreign Minister, before betraying him for the restored Bourbon king. Willems, 564
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