Commentaires de Messire Blaise de Montluc, mareschal de France. . Où sont descris les combats, rencontres, escarmouches, batailles, sieges, assauts, escalades, prinses, ou surprinses de villes & places fortes, deffence des assaillies & assiegées, auecques plusieurs autres faicts de guerre signalez & remarquables, esquels ce grand & renommé guerrier s'est trouué durant cinquante ou soixante ans qu'il a porté les armes: ensemble diuerses instructions, qui ne doiuent estre ignorées de ceux, qui veulent paruenir par les armes à quelqu' honneur, & sagement conduire tous exploits de guerre. ...
Blaise de Lasseran, seigneur de Monluc (1500-1577)
Category
Books
Date
1626
Materials
Place of origin
France
Collection
Ickworth, Suffolk
NT 3095039.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
v.1 ([8],803[i.e.703],[1];602[i.e.554],[30]p.) . 8vo. Provenance: Manuscript inscriptions on vol. 1 title page: "Tho & Isabella Hervey" [i.e. Sir Thomas Hervey (1625-1694) and his wife Isabella (1625-1686)], and "Tho: Hervey" [i.e. Sir Thomas Hervey (1625-1694)]. Marginalia and underscorings in ink and pencil; according to Sydenham Hervey such "mysterious little pencil marks in the margins" are a sign of ownership by John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol (1665-1751).. Binding: Early twentienth-century[?] quarter-bound goatskin bindings, with marbled paper over boards.
Provenance
Part of the Bristol Collection. The house and contents were acquired through the National Land Fund and transferred to the National Trust in 1956
Makers and roles
Blaise de Lasseran, seigneur de Monluc (1500-1577)