Collationnement :
Garde blanche , Titre avec vignette, Aux lecteurs [4 p. non foliotées] Aux nobles familles de Paris par G. Corrozet [2p. non foliotées] , Le blason des armes de la ville de Paris, Sonnet par le filz de l’autheur [2 p. non foliotées], Louanges de la cité de Paris [4p. non foliotées], Extrait du privilège [1p. ,verso blanc], table [12 p. non foliotées], Table pour trouver prontement le lieu où il est traicté de chacun des Roys [3 p. non foliotées, verso blanc] , 424 pages uniquement foliotées sur le recto [cahier D (p.25 à 32V) inversé avec le cahier E (p.33 à 40 v), aucun manque], 242 p. [mauvaise pagination de la dernière page 119 au lieu de 121, pas de manque]
Copy in very good condition of this classic on the history of Paris containing a large number of epitaphs, the second book in the first edition. Complete with 57 engravings on both parts. Parchment with flaps (without the laces), bookplate glued to the inside cover recto, some light waterstains on about thirty pages, in-4° on half sheet (175*115 mm) [signature B on p.9]
Title, 16 ff° +424 p. + Titre , 3 ff° + 242 p. + 3 ff° / 53 p. 1f
Bookplate pasted on the front cover by Guillelmi Pitra, who appears in some public deposits dated 1742 (here undated); it would seem that he was a Parisian merchant.
Complete collated copy of the fifty-seven engravings distributed over the two parts
First part: 424 p. [paginated 1 to 212, recto only] two full-text engravings: p. 19v and p.176
Second part: 242 p. [paginated 1 to 119 [recte 121] recto only] containing 55 full text engravings [full page]: p.7- 13 – 14- 15v- 17- 18v- 19v 20v-24- 26- 30v- 32v- 33 -34v -36 -37v- 39- 40- 41- 42- 44- 45- 47v -49v- 51- 53- 54- 54v- 56v- 57v 60v- 61- 62v- 63v- 66v- 67v-68v- 69 -69v- 71v- 72v- 78v- 79- 80- 80v- 82- 88- 89- 89v- 99v- 103v -105v-107-108v and 109v.
Our copy therefore contains the three recumbent figures from the church of Saint-Paul in Paris, by Maugeron, Samegrin [for Saint-Mégrin] and Quesleus [for Caylus], minions of Henry III who were removed from subsequent editions following the destruction of the mausoleums by the populace incited by the preachers of the League, in 1589.
Paul Stuart de Caussade de Saint-Mégrin was assassinated as he left the Louvre in 1578.
Louis Maugeron (1560-1578), son of the lieutenant general in the government of Dauphiné, was killed in the famous duel of the Minions (April 27, 1578) against Charles Balsac d’Entragues in Paris. He was the witness of Jacques de Lévis, Lord of Caylus.
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