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AVILA (Luis (de). Commentaire du seigneur Don Loys d'Avila, contenant la guerre d'Allemaigne, faicte par l'Empereur Charles V. es années 1547 & 1548. Mis d'Espagnol en François par Gil. Boilleau de Buisson [...] Paris, Vincent Sertenas and Jean Longis, 1551. Small in-8 fawn calf, ornate ribbed spine, boards with double framing of cold-stamped fillets and central iron, gilt fleurons at corners (period binding). 318 [=320] pp. ; [56] ff. Complete with large woodcut folding map of Germany by Sébastien Münster. Written by an eyewitness, historian and diplomat close to Emperor Charles V, this account recounts the monarch's victories over Germany's Protestant electorate in 1547 and 1548, the prelude to the war between French King Henry II and Charles V a few years later. The book is divided into two parts, the first numbered from 1 to 318 pages, the second of 56 unnumbered leaves entitled "Annotations ou scholies servants a plus amples intelligence de ceste guerre" by Gilles Boileau de Bouillon, who served in Charles V's armies as commissary. From the library of Charles van der Elst (pdt of the Royal Society of Belgian Bibliophiles) with his bookplate and handwritten bookplate of the Capuchins of Rennes on the title. Minor old repairs to map. Discrete restorations to the spine.

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AVILA (Luis (de). Commentaire du seigneur Don Loys d'Avila, contenant la guerre d'Allemaigne, faicte par l'Empereur Charles V. es années 1547 & 1548. Mis d'Espagnol en François par Gil. Boilleau de Buisson [...] Paris, Vincent Sertenas and Jean Longis, 1551. Small in-8 fawn calf, ornate ribbed spine, boards with double framing of cold-stamped fillets and central iron, gilt fleurons at corners (period binding). 318 [=320] pp. ; [56] ff. Complete with large woodcut folding map of Germany by Sébastien Münster. Written by an eyewitness, historian and diplomat close to Emperor Charles V, this account recounts the monarch's victories over Germany's Protestant electorate in 1547 and 1548, the prelude to the war between French King Henry II and Charles V a few years later. The book is divided into two parts, the first numbered from 1 to 318 pages, the second of 56 unnumbered leaves entitled "Annotations ou scholies servants a plus amples intelligence de ceste guerre" by Gilles Boileau de Bouillon, who served in Charles V's armies as commissary. From the library of Charles van der Elst (pdt of the Royal Society of Belgian Bibliophiles) with his bookplate and handwritten bookplate of the Capuchins of Rennes on the title. Minor old repairs to map. Discrete restorations to the spine.

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