HIRET (Jean) - Des Antiquitez d'Anjou - Angers; Anthoine Hernault, Imprimeur du Roy, 1618 - 1 volume In-12° - [8] leaves, 600, [7] pages - Marginal and last page annotations in black ink - Binding of the time cream vellum (1st guard detached, 1 corner worn, (1st endpaper detached, 1 corner worn, small lack to the 2nd spine as well as to the 2nd plate, 1st hinge split) - Smooth spine titled in black ink (rodent work to the headpieces) - Ex-libris scratched on the 1st counter plate and on the title - Very enlarged edition of the "Antiquités d'Anjou" first published in 1605. This rare work remained for a long time the only historical work on Anjou. Reference : https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb30606855b

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