COMMYNES (de), Philippe.

Mémoires de Messire Philippe de Comines, seigneur d'Argenton, où l'on trouve l'histoire des rois de France Louis XI et Charles VIII.

A Londres et se trouve à Paris, chez Rollin fils, 1747.

In-4 (289 x 230 mm), 4 volumes, T1 - (4) ff., CXVIII-(2) ff., 632 pp., T2 - (3) ff., X-660 pp., T3 - (2) ff., XX-650 pp., T4 - (2) ff., VIII-432-(1)-215 pp.

Mottled tan calf, coat of arms in spandrels on the boards, ribbed spine, boxes with coat of arms in the centre and in the spandrels, roulette on the edges, red edges (contemporary binding).

New edition, the first by Nicolas Lenglet Du Fresnoy (1674-1755).

A precious copy bearing the arms of the Chancellor of France, Henri-François d'Aguesseau (1668-1751).

It is illustrated with an allegorical frontispiece by Duflos after Bernard Picart, 4 portraits (Commynes, Louis XI, Charles le Hardi and Charles VIII) and 5 bandeaux, some repeated; with 2 fold-out genealogical tables.

Fine restorations on the spines and a few corners.

From the library of Henri-François d'Aguesseau (1668-1751); his arms on the boards and coins in the spandrels and caissons (OHR 594).

Brunet, II, 191 ; Tchemerzine, III, 471.