SERRES (Jean de). La vie de Messire Gaspard de Colligny, Seigneur de Chastillon, Admiral de France. À laquelle sont adioustés ses mémoires sur ce qui se passa au siège de S. Quentin.
Leiden: Bonaventure & Abraham Elzevier, 1643.

Followed by:
Memoires de Gaspar de Colligny… durant le siège de S. Quintin, en l’an 1557.

16mo (127 × 77 mm). (1) f., 143; 88 pp. Full imperial-green morocco, triple gilt fillet border, spine gilt in compartments with raised bands, gilt turn-ins, gilt edges; by M. Niédrée.

First Elzevir edition.
The French text of this life of Gaspard de Coligny, Admiral of France and major Huguenot leader, was translated by François Hotman. The appended Mémoires recount the events of the Siege of Saint-Quentin (1557), a key episode in the Habsburg–Valois wars, told from Coligny’s perspective.

A handsome copy in an elegant morocco binding by Niédrée.

From the library of Charles Penruddocke, with his ex-dono on the title-page and his bookplate.

References: Willems & Rahir for Elzevir editions; uncommon in fine contemporary-style bindings.