Mémoires du Cardinal de Retz,. contenant ce qui s'est passé de remarquable en France pendant les premiéres années du regne de Louis XIV. Nouvelle édition, revue exactement, augmentée de plusieurs eclaircissemens historiques, & de quelques piéces du Cardinal de Retz & autres, servant à l'histoire de ce tems-là. ...
Jean François Paul de Gondi Cardinal de Retz (1613-1679).
Category
Books
Date
1731
Materials
Place of origin
Amsterdam
Collection
Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire
NT 3077477
Summary
Bibliographic description
4v.:. port.;. 8vo. Accession no. 4240.1-4. Catalogued from Barber catalogue. Provenance: Bequest of James de Rothschild, 1957. Provenance: Comte de Lignerolles (sale 1894, lot 2912, auction slip and cutting present). Bought by Morgand et Fatout for 2,100 francs and sold to Baron Ferdinand for the same price plus 15% commission; 1897 Waddesdon catalogue, p.76. Binding: late eighteenth-century French red morocco; triple fillet to boards, flat spine, lettered directly, plain band lines with dots and small nine-pointed rosette in panels, title panel with lozenge, half-oval and dot tool at foot of spine. Yellow marker, red and white headbands, gilt edges, herringbone marbled endleaves. Attributed to N.-D. Derome on the grounds of the lozenge, half-oval and dot tool used on the spine as in the Schiff Collection with Derome's ticket.
Makers and roles
Jean François Paul de Gondi Cardinal de Retz (1613-1679)., author