DU BEC, Jehan (1540-1610). Histoire de grand Tamerlanes ... tirées des monumens antiques des Arabes ... nouvellement reveuë et corrigée. Brussels: Roger Velpio, 1602. 8° (152 x 93mm). (Lacks the portrait, persistent waterstaining, title holed at bottom margin as a result of erasure, some headlines a little cropped, last six leaves slightly wormed.) Armorial calf with gilt arms of Louis-François-Armand de Vignerot du Plessis, duc de Richelieu et de Fronsac, prior to 1747, repeated Lorraine cross on spine (spine chipped at head, rubbed). Olivier III-IV 407.1. Provenance: Duc de Richelieu (1696-1788, arms on binding) -- bought from Librería Antiguos Gravata, 1956. There was also a Lyon issue in 1602, the first edition having appeared at Rouen in 1595. cf. Brunet II, 846.
ROHAN, Henri II, duc de (1579-1638). Voyage du duc de Rohan faict en l'an 1600 en Italie, Allemaigne, Pays-bas Uni, Angleterre, et Escosse. Amsterdam: Louys Elzevier, 1646. 12° (120 x 61mm). Sphere device on title, woodcut opening initial. (Light spotting.) Red straight-grained morocco by R. Payne, flat spine directly lettered and with compartments divided by dots, sides with dotted border, gilt fillet on turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges, later gilt supralibros. Provenance: Thorold family, Syston Park (bookplate) -- William Beckford (Hamilton Palace Sale, July 1883, lot 1444) -- purchased from Ch. Bosse, 1926. BECKFORD COPY bound by Roger Payne. Brunet IV, 1354; Willems 1045: 'fort bien exécuté' (though probably not from Louys Elzevier's presses). (2)
DU BEC, Jehan (1540-1610). Histoire de grand Tamerlanes ... tirées des monumens antiques des Arabes ... nouvellement reveuë et corrigée. Brussels: Roger Velpio, 1602. 8° (152 x 93mm). (Lacks the portrait, persistent waterstaining, title holed at bottom margin as a result of erasure, some headlines a little cropped, last six leaves slightly wormed.) Armorial calf with gilt arms of Louis-François-Armand de Vignerot du Plessis, duc de Richelieu et de Fronsac, prior to 1747, repeated Lorraine cross on spine (spine chipped at head, rubbed). Olivier III-IV 407.1. Provenance: Duc de Richelieu (1696-1788, arms on binding) -- bought from Librería Antiguos Gravata, 1956. There was also a Lyon issue in 1602, the first edition having appeared at Rouen in 1595. cf. Brunet II, 846.
ROHAN, Henri II, duc de (1579-1638). Voyage du duc de Rohan faict en l'an 1600 en Italie, Allemaigne, Pays-bas Uni, Angleterre, et Escosse. Amsterdam: Louys Elzevier, 1646. 12° (120 x 61mm). Sphere device on title, woodcut opening initial. (Light spotting.) Red straight-grained morocco by R. Payne, flat spine directly lettered and with compartments divided by dots, sides with dotted border, gilt fillet on turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges, later gilt supralibros. Provenance: Thorold family, Syston Park (bookplate) -- William Beckford (Hamilton Palace Sale, July 1883, lot 1444) -- purchased from Ch. Bosse, 1926. BECKFORD COPY bound by Roger Payne. Brunet IV, 1354; Willems 1045: 'fort bien exécuté' (though probably not from Louys Elzevier's presses). (2)
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