SULLY, Maximilien de Bethune.
Memoirs or Royal Economies of State, Domestic, Political and Military of Henry the Great. Amsterdam, at the expense of the Company, 1725. 11 vols out of 12. In-12. Full contemporary calf, arms in the centre of the boards, spine ribbed and decorated with irons, red morocco title and giblets.
Incomplete. Volume I is missing.
First edition of Sully's work according to the original manuscripts. A copy of François-Joachim-Bernard Potier, duke of Gesvres. He became governor of the Ile de France and governor and captain of the hunting grounds of Monceaux.
Small rubs to the binding.
O.H.R. pl. 2054, n°2.