Memoires et lettres de Henri duc de Rohan, sur la guerre de la Valteline.. Publiés pour la premiere fois, & accompagnés de notes géographiques, historiques & généalogiques par M. le Baron de Zur-Lauben.
Henri III Rohan, Duke of Rohan and Prince of Leon (1579-1638)
Category
Books
Date
1758
Materials
Place of origin
Geneva
Collection
Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire
NT 3077490.2
Summary
Bibliographic description
v. 2;. 12mo. Accession no. 4234.2. Catalogued from Barber catalogue. Provenance: Bequest of James de Rothschild, 1957. Provenance: Marquise de Pompadour (slae 1765, lot 2829); said to have been William Beckford's but not in the 1882 sale, possibly because it bears the label of the third earl of Gosford (his library sold 1878); 1897 Waddesdon catalogue, p.77. Binding:eighteenth-century French red morocco, arms of Madame de Pompadour; triple fillet in corners of covers, together with a pear tool on spine. Citron lettering- and numeration-pieces. Blue silk marker, edges gilt over marble, gold star and dot on white endleaves.
Makers and roles
Henri III Rohan, Duke of Rohan and Prince of Leon (1579-1638) Zur-Lauben, baron de, 1720-1795