Le mercure françois, ou, La suitte de l'histoire de la paix. . Commençant l'an M.DC.V. pour suitte du Septenaire du D. Cayer, & finissant au Sacre du tres-Chrestien Roy de France & de Nauarre Loys XIII.
Pierre-Victor Palma-Cayet (1525-1610)
Category
Books
Date
1611 - 1648
Materials
Place of origin
France
Collection
Ickworth, Suffolk
NT 3095469
Summary
Bibliographic description
25 or 26v. . ill.., geneal. table, maps, plans . 8vo. Imperfect: vols. 1 and 2 only. Manuscript inscription in pencil on vol. 1 front pastedown: "21st bookcase no. 73 2 vol". Entry from auction catalogue pasted onto vol. 1 front fly-leaf. manuscript bibliographic note on this work in pencil on vol. 2 front fly-leaf.. Provenance: Manuscript inscription on front fly-leaf of both vols: "Elizabeth Countess of Bristol her book 1738" [i.e. Elizabeth Felton, Countess of Bristol (1676-1741)]. Manuscript inscription on title page of both vols: "Tho: & Isabella Hervey" [i.e. Sir Thomas Hervey (1625-1694) and his wife Isabella (1625-1686)]. Manuscript inscription on vol. 1 title page: "Sr Wm Hervey price. 10s./" [i.e. Sir William Hervey (1585 or 6-1660)].. Binding: Seventeenth-century brown goatskin bindings; double gilt fillet border on boards; gilt fronded wreath centrepiece stamp on boards; gilt roll patterns on board edges; gold-tooled spines. Identical binding on 2.B.3.25.
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
Pierre-Victor Palma-Cayet (1525-1610) Théophraste Renaudot (1584-1653) Estienne Richer Jean Richer Olivier de Varennes