Memoirs of John Lord de Joinville, . ... written by himself; containing a history of part of the life of Louis IX. King of France, ... including an account of that King's expedition to Egypt in the year MCCXLVIII. To which are added, - the notes & dissertations of M. du Cange on the above; together with the dissertations of M. le Baron de la Bastie on the life of St. Louis, M. l'Evesque de la Ravaliere and M. Falconet on the assassins of Syria; from the 'Memoires de l'Académie de Belles Lettres et Inscriptions de France.' The whole translated by Thomas Johnes, ...
Sire Jean de Joinville (1224-1317)
Category
Books
Date
1807
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Tyntesfield, North Somerset
NT 3079592
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v., [6] plates (3 folding) : ill. ; 4to. Two vols. bound in one. Provenance: large pictorial bookplate headed: “En Dios Mi Amparo Esperanza”; with view of Tyntesfield; coat of arms and armour below; Tenax Propositi / George Abraham Gibbs, of Tyntesfield" [i.e. George Abraham 1st Baron Wraxall (1873-1931)]. W.P.B. 1911 [Barrett bookplate]. Binding: nineteenth-century full blue calf, golf tooled spine, borders and turn-ins; gold lettered spine; marbled edges.
Makers and roles
Sire Jean de Joinville (1224-1317) Charles Du Fresne sieur Du Cange (1610-1688) Camille Falconet (1671-1762) Thomas Johnes (1748 - 1816) Joseph de Bimard, baron de La Bastie (1702-1742) Pierre Alexandre Lévesque de la Ravallière (1697-1762)