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France. Du Bellay (Martin & Guillaume, seigneurs de Langey), Les Mémoires de Mess. Martin du Bellay Seigneur de Langey. Contenans (sic) le discours de plusieurs choses aduenuës au Royame de France, depuis l'an 1513 iusques au trespas du roy François premier, ausquels l'autheur a inserè trois liures, & quelques fragmens des Ogdoades de mess. Guillaume Du Bellay [...] Oeuure mis nouuellement en lumiere, & presentè au Roy par mess. René du Bellay [...], Paris: Chez Abel l'Angelier Libraire iuré, tenant sa boutique au premier pillier de la grand' salle du Palais, 1582, title-page with wood-engraved printer's device, complete collating: [xxiv], 616, [12]pp (table, plus colophon leaf); i.e. a⁶, A-³E⁶, ³F-³G⁴, ³H⁶, wood engraved historiated and foliated initials, Mannerist headers, the last 20 or so leaves with a slight water stain to the upper-margin only, generally a clean and crisp copy, 17th c mottled calf boards and speckled edges, contemporaneous endpapers, discernible incunabula &/or post-incunabula binder's waste beneath recto and verso pastedowns, four loosely-inserted typed sheets of research and notes, later 20th c yet in-keeping reback of calf gilt, presumably by J. Henderson, morocco lettering piece, over 17th c speckled calf boards, folio (35.5 x 23.5cm)
Provenance: 1) François de Bigars, Marquis de La Londe; 17th c French armorial etched and engraved bookplate to pastedown; 2) John Orlebar of the Middle Temple (1697-1765), later of Hinwick House, Bedfordshire, and later Whig MP for the aforementioned county town (1727-34); Jacobean armorial bookplate to verso of title-page.
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