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Hardcover. Condition: New. Facsimile reprint of the 1936 University of California Press edition. Beware modern reprints from India; they are scanned copies with inferior print quality, illustrations, and binding compared to this edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. frontis (portrait), illustrations, 4 plates, 3 facsimiles, xviii, 204p. Original gray paper boards backed in parchment. 30cm. A mostly unopened copy with three tiny white spots on cover and just a spot of foxing on a couple of leaves. Edition limited to 300 copies. Historical Introduction in English followed by Estienne's original Latin text with English translation on facing pages. …

First edition. One of 12 copies. Two volumes. Publisher's full navy blue morocco, ruled in gilt to the upper and lower boards, with five raised bands, gilt ruled compartments, and titles in gilt to the spines. Marbled endpapers. Engraved frontispiece portrait and two further full page illustrations in each volume. Introduction text, chapter headings and indexes are in English, the remainder of the text is in French. A near fine set, the bindings square and firm with a little rubbing to the extremities. The closed text block edges are a touch toned and with a few minor marks. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Issued in an edition of just 12 copies, printed on 100% rag paper. Scarce thus. A substantial and important documentary source for the history of sixteenth-century France, comprising the correspondence and papers of Armand de Gontaut, Baron de Biron (1524-1592), Marshal of France. The material was collected by Sidney Hellman Ehrman and, following his death, edited with an extensive introduction by the distinguished medieval and early-modern historian James Westfall Thompson. The first part presents Biron's correspondence from 1557 until his death in 1592, including numerous previously unpublished letters; the second gathers documents relating to Biron, while a further section concerns the Gontaut family. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.…

Vellum Spine. Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket. Edited with historical intorduction original Latin text with English translation on opposite pages and notes. 204 pages. limited to 300 copies. old bookplate on inside front cover "John Thomas Lee". vellum spine. shipping will be extra, please inquire. ; Limited Edition; 7 3/4 x 11 1/2 ".…