Les memoires de Messire Philippe de Commines, Chevalier, seigneur d'Argenton : sur les principaux faits & gestes de Loys XI. & Charles VIII. son fils, Rois de France : et vn ample indice des choses plus remarquables

Commines, Philippe de.

Published by Chez Jean Berthelin, Roen, 1606

About this Item

Wear to the top of the spine and its edges, with some cracking; but covers solidly attached on this early French binding. The OCLC lists two portrait engravings for this printing of an earlier work. But apparently not all copies were issued with them, and there is no evidence this copy ever contained them. Philippe de Commines was a writer and diplomat in the courts of Burgundy and France. He has been called "the first truly modern writer" (Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve) and "the first critical and philosophical historian since classical times" (Oxford Companion to English Literature); and this was a new edition of the revised version of Commines' work edited by Denis Sauvage. OCLC lists only two copies. RARE.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Les memoires de Messire Philippe de Commines, Chevalier, seigneur d'Argenton : sur les principaux faits & gestes de Loys XI. & Charles VIII. son fils, Rois de France : et vn ample indice des choses plus remarquables
• Publisher: Chez Jean Berthelin, Roen
• Publication Date: 1606
• Language: French
• Binding: Full-Leather
• Edition: First Thus.
• Condition: VG+
• Weight: 1 pound