Collection Universal des Memoires Particuliers Relatifs A L'Histoire de France.
Collection Universal des Memoires Particuliers Relatifs A L'Histoire de France.
Collection Universal des Memoires Particuliers Relatifs A L'Histoire de France.
Collection Universal des Memoires Particuliers Relatifs A L'Histoire de France.
Collection Universal des Memoires Particuliers Relatifs A L'Histoire de France.

INVENTORY #117045

Collection Universal des Memoires Particuliers Relatifs A L'Histoire de France.

M. Cuchet

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Originally planed as a 72-volume set; however, it was never completed, in all likelihood because its final years of publication coincided with the French Revolution. There are no complete sets currently available online. Containing the memoirs, as well as observations on the memoirs, of numerous figures related to the political history of France: La Maison de Joinville en Champagne; L'Historie de S. Louis; Extraits des manuscrits Arabes; Bertand du Guesclin; Christine de Pisan's Memoires ou livre des faits et bonnes Moeurs due sage Roi Charles V; Pierre de Fenin escuyer et panetier de Charles VI, Roy de France (1407-22); Jean le Maingre, dit Marechal de Coucicaut; La Pucelle D'Orleans; Bretagne, Comte de Richemont, et Connectable de France; Florent, sire d'Illiers, Capitaine au service de Charles VII; D'Olivier de la Marche; Jacques Duclearq; L'Abbe Lenglet du Fresnoy; Philippe de Comines (includes a geneological map pasted into the back of vol. 10; Jean de Troye; Guillame de Villeneuve; Louis de la Tremoille; Chevalier Bayard; Robert de la Marck; Louise de Savoye, Duhesse D'Angouleme; Martin et Guillaume du Bellay, Seigneurs de Langey; Messire Blaise de Montluc, Marechal de France; Messire Gaspard de Saulx; Messire Gaspard de Tavannes; Marechal de Vieilleville; Francois de Boivin, Baron due Villars; Francois de Rabutin; Bertrand de Salignac; Gaspard de Coligni; Monsieur de la Chastre; Jean de Mergey; Michel de Castelnau; D'Achile Gamon; Jean Philippi; Francois Seigneur de la Noue; M. Henry de la Tour D'Aubergne, Vicomte de Turenne; Guillaume de Saulx, Seigneur de Tavannes; Messire Philippe Hurault, Comte de Cheverny; Marguerite de Valois; Jacvques-Auguest de Thou; Jean Choisnin, Secretaire de Montluc; Victor Palma Cayet; Jacque Paper, seigneur de Saint-Auban; D''Etat du Sieur de Villeroi; Charles de Valois, Duc D'Angouleme; Pierre de Boudeille, Abbe et Seigneur de Brantome; Francois de Bourdeille; Dames Illustres Francoises et Etrangere: Anne de Bretagne; Cathine de Medicis; Marie Stuart; Elizabeth de France, Marguerite; Madame Yoland de France, Jeanne de France, Anne de France, Claude de France, Renee de France, Marguerite, Reine de Navarre, Mesdames Charlotte, Louise, and Magdeleine de France, Marguerite de France, etc.; Dames Galantes. Please note that additional shipping costs may apply, depending on your location.

Publication Info

  • Publisher: M. Cuchet
  • Edition: n/a
  • Date Published: 1785, 1786, 1787, 1788, 1789,
  • Place Published: London and Paris
  • ISBN: n/a

Details

  • Condition: Good
  • Signed: No
  • Dust Jacket: No
  • Jacket Condition: n/a
  • Details:
    Vols. 1-65 of the 67 vol. set. 20.5 cm. cxxiv, 371, 467, [6], 451, [6], 477, [6], 556, [6], xvi, 476, [5], 467, xiii, 422, [6], v, 541, xvi, 494, [6], 560, [6], 525, xv, 476, viii, 436, [6], 477, xi, 438, xviii, 510, [6], 412, [6], 475, [6], 517, [6], 364 [p. 362 mistyped as 462], xxx, 454, [6], 460p, [6], 498, [6], 468, [6], 176, xxxvi, 237, [6], 510, [6], 435, [6], 438, 463, [6], 463, [6], 476, [6], 426, [6], 490, [6], 487, [6], 488, [6], 458, [6], 434, [6], 504, [6], 443, [6], 422, [6], 500, [6], 483, [6], 521, [4], 481, [6], 411, [6], 458, [8], 460, [6], 438, [6], 480, [6], 484, [6], 470, [6], 372, [6], 421, [6], 448, [6], 470, [7], 488, [8], 506, [8], 535, [8], 541, [8], 478, [6], 440, [6], 428, [6], 454, [6], 492, [6], 495. Leather bindings. Marbled endpapers and edging. Gold impressing on spine with some edging the boards. French language text. Ex-;library with small library tag pasted on the paste down endpaper in the front of each volume. Significant wear to the bindings of the entire set with tearing, bumped corners, and deterioration of the leather's quality in various states throughout the entire set. Endpapers and title pages in some volumes have tears and stains. Front endpaper torn out in vol. 36. Corner of p. 353 in vol. 58 torn out. Part of outside margin torn out of vol. 61 fr. 29-32. The body pages themselves are clean with only occasionaly spotting thoughtout. While the set shows its age, none of the volumes are broken or missing content. The set remains highly readable.

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