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A volume in-12 (140x80 mm), half leather binding, marbled paper covers, smooth spine, marbled endpapers (posterior binding). Wear, friction and losses on the covers, blunt corners. Browned pages. Fresh interior, rare foxing
First edition of this historical work on the state of France at the death of Louis XIII, and the first years of the reign of Louis XIV (when Courtilz de Sandras wrote this work, in 1684, Louis XIV was barely 40 years old)
Gatien Courtilz de Sandras is a French writer. First engaged in the company of the Musketeers, he left the army after 18 years to become a polygrapher and live from his pen. A prolific and imprudent author, he was imprisoned for several years in the Bastille. 66906695
