Mémoires de Maximilien de Béthune, duc de Sully,
chief minister to Henry the Great.
SULLY (Duc de.)
Londres [Paris] - Par M.L.D.L.D.L. [Pierre-Mathurin de L'Écluse des Loges]. - 1745
- Format : In-4.
- Number of volumes : 3 tomes.
- Binding : Related.
- Collation : Tome 1: XXXVII-595 pp. Tome 2: X-664 pp. Tome 3: VI-563 pp.
Havana calf full period binder. Spine ribbed with gilt fleurons and red morocco title piece. All gilt edges. Nice margins. Wears on the caps and bits. Rubbing on the dishes. While the table of illustrations gives 56 portraits, ours has 67: TI: 34 engravings. T. II: 22 engravings. T. III: 11 engravings.
Maximilien de Béthune, Duke of Sully (1559-1641), peer of France, Marshal of France, was a Protestant soldier and a companion in arms of King Henry IV, of whom he became one of his principal advisers.
First printing of the edition established by the Abbot of the Lodge Lock. It also includes the Supplement to the life of the Duke de Sully since his retirement.
One of the most beautiful editions of the Memoirs of Sully.
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