Null [BRITAIN] - ARGENTRÉ (Bertrand d') - The history of Bretaigne of the Kings,…
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[BRITAIN] - ARGENTRÉ (Bertrand d') - The history of Bretaigne of the Kings, Dukes, Counts and Princes of Bretaigne, from the year 383 until the time of Madame Anne Reyne de France last Duch.[esse] [] - Troisiesme édition reveue & augmentée par Messire Charles d'Argentré [] - Paris ; Nicolas Buon, 1618 - 1 large volume In-folio - Scattered aureoles, wormholes at the head of the pin and small galleries in the upper margin up to page 167, false title a few marginal annotations in pencil, child's scribble in pencil on the false title and page 187 - False title, beautiful title engraved by L. Gaultier, [2] unnumbered leaves out of 6, (engraved dedication and portrait of the author missing), 1054 pages, [1] blank leaf, [15] leaves of table, 1 folding map of Brittany, 1 folding map of Rennes dated 1616 (1 folding genealogical table missing) - Binding of the period in worn tan calf (boards very badly worn with small tears and worm work), 1st hinge cracked, paper in front and back, 1st hinge cracked, paper of the 1st back cover detached, that of the 2nd partly detached, 1st guard missing, the last white guard partly torn) - Spine ribbed and decorated (lower headpiece missing) - Title page in tan morocco - Old handwritten bookplate on the false-title: de Cheffontaine.

[BRITAIN] - ARGENTRÉ (Bertrand d') - The history of Bretaigne of the Kings, Dukes, Counts and Princes of Bretaigne, from the year 383 until the time of Madame Anne Reyne de France last Duch.[esse] [] - Troisiesme édition reveue & augmentée par Messire Charles d'Argentré [] - Paris ; Nicolas Buon, 1618 - 1 large volume In-folio - Scattered aureoles, wormholes at the head of the pin and small galleries in the upper margin up to page 167, false title a few marginal annotations in pencil, child's scribble in pencil on the false title and page 187 - False title, beautiful title engraved by L. Gaultier, [2] unnumbered leaves out of 6, (engraved dedication and portrait of the author missing), 1054 pages, [1] blank leaf, [15] leaves of table, 1 folding map of Brittany, 1 folding map of Rennes dated 1616 (1 folding genealogical table missing) - Binding of the period in worn tan calf (boards very badly worn with small tears and worm work), 1st hinge cracked, paper in front and back, 1st hinge cracked, paper of the 1st back cover detached, that of the 2nd partly detached, 1st guard missing, the last white guard partly torn) - Spine ribbed and decorated (lower headpiece missing) - Title page in tan morocco - Old handwritten bookplate on the false-title: de Cheffontaine.

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