The secret letters and negotiations of the Mareschal d'Estrades, Monsieur Colbert, and the Count D'Avaux; . the French King's plenipotentiary-ambassadors in the Treaty of Nimeguen. Together with His Most Christian Majesty's and Monsieur de Pomponne's answers and instructions.
King Louis XIV, King of France (1638–1715)
Category
Books
Date
1710
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3106675
Summary
Bibliographic description
4v. . 12mo.. Former shelfmarks: Ll.5 (in pencil), Ll.8.18-21 (blue ink).. Provenance: Armorial bookplate (between 1733 and 1754) in vol. 1: Philip Lord Hardwicke Baron of Hardwicke in ye County of Gloucester [i.e. Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), created Baron Hardwicke, 1733, and Earl of Hardwicke, 1754; also found in Wimpole books acquired by his successors]. manuscript inscription on title pages: "Jeff: Gilbert" [i.e. Sir Geoffrey Gilbert (1674-1726), Lord Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer, whose library was sold at auction in Gray's Inn in 1728].. Binding: Eighteenth-century Cambridge-style blind-panelled calf bindings; gilt roll on board edges; gilt fillets, gilt red title and gilt black vol. no. labels on spines.
Makers and roles
King Louis XIV, King of France (1638–1715) Jean-Antoine de Mesmes, comte d'Avaux (1640-1709) Jean Baptiste Colbert (1619-1683) Godefroy Louis comte d'Estrades (1607-1686)