PASQUIER (Étienne) - Les Recherches de la France [...] Augmentées en cette dernière édition de trois livres entiers [...] - Paris ; Pierre Ménard, 1643 - 1 volume In-folio - Small marginal loss on the 1st table leaf, small scattered freckles, 1 large halo on the outer margin - Frontispiece portrait of the author engraved by Isac Jaspar, large vignette on the title in red and black ink, headbands, initials - Bound in contemporary ivory vellum overlay - Smooth spine titled in ink (1 small loss and a few cracks) - Manuscript bookplate on the 1st back cover: Audorici Campredon - Good copy. Provenance: Château de Loyat with ex-libris pasted on the first back cover.

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