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CARLOIX (Vincent). Mémoires de la vie de François de Scepeaux, Sire de Vieilleville et Comte de Duretal, Maréchal de France ; contenants plusieurs anecdotes des regnes de François I, Henri II, François II, & Charles IX. Paris, Guerin & Delatour, 1757. 5 vol. in-12, lemon morocco, spines decorated with nerfs, triple gilt fillet on the sides with gilt arms in their center, gilt roulette on the edges and inside, gilt tr. (binding of the time). Portrait in frontispiece by Moitte. First edition of this biography of the Maréchal de Vieilleville (1509-1571), written by the man who was his secretary for more than thirty years. Coming from one of the oldest and most illustrious families of Anjou, the Maréchal de Vieilleville was involved in the great European events from the reign of François I to the end of the reign of Charles IX. A precious copy in contemporary morocco with the arms of Henri REINECKE (1685-1772), count of CALENBERG. He was provost of Meissen, grand master of artillery and chamberlain of the emperor in 1729. He moved to Brussels in 1754, where he assembled an important collection of books, paintings and prints, which was dispersed after his death (Belgian Bibliophile's Armorial, p. 687).
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CARLOIX (Vincent). Mémoires de la vie de François de Scepeaux, Sire de Vieilleville et Comte de Duretal, Maréchal de France ; contenants plusieurs anecdotes des regnes de François I, Henri II, François II, & Charles IX. Paris, Guerin & Delatour, 1757. 5 vol. in-12, lemon morocco, spines decorated with nerfs, triple gilt fillet on the sides with gilt arms in their center, gilt roulette on the edges and inside, gilt tr. (binding of the time). Portrait in frontispiece by Moitte. First edition of this biography of the Maréchal de Vieilleville (1509-1571), written by the man who was his secretary for more than thirty years. Coming from one of the oldest and most illustrious families of Anjou, the Maréchal de Vieilleville was involved in the great European events from the reign of François I to the end of the reign of Charles IX. A precious copy in contemporary morocco with the arms of Henri REINECKE (1685-1772), count of CALENBERG. He was provost of Meissen, grand master of artillery and chamberlain of the emperor in 1729. He moved to Brussels in 1754, where he assembled an important collection of books, paintings and prints, which was dispersed after his death (Belgian Bibliophile's Armorial, p. 687).
