Histoire de France,. depuis Faramond jusqu'au regne de Louis le Juste. Enrichie, de plusieurs belles & rares antiquitez, & de la vie des reynes. .... Par le sieur F. de Mezeray, ...
François Eudes de Mézeray (1610-1683)
Category
Books
Date
1685
Materials
Place of origin
France
Collection
Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire
NT 3006857
Summary
Bibliographic description
Nouvelle édition. Reveuë, & augmenteé [sic] par l'auteur d'un volume de l'origine des François.. 3v. in 6, plates. ill. fol. Accession no. 5556.1-6. Catalogued from Barber catalogue. Provenance: Bequest of James de Rothschild, 1957. Provenance: Marquise de Pompadour (sale 1765, lot 2646); Bulletin Morgand, v.2 (1880), no. 6258, stock no. 16992; 1897 Waddesdon catalogue, p. 55. Binding: mid-eighteenth century red morocco, after 1750 (date of watermark on flyleaf of v.1); arms of Madame de Pompadour; border of dragonfly roll; olive lettering-pieces on spine, pomegranates; edges gilt over marble, turn-in roll, pink and white headbands, blue silk marker, endleaves of leaf-combed marble. Attributed to Louis Douceur on account of the stamp of the arms of Madame de Pompadour and the dragonfly roll.
Makers and roles
François Eudes de Mézeray (1610-1683)