295 - c. 1650

c. 1650 BOOK. (HUMANITIES). BETHUNE, MAXIMILIAN DE:. MEMOIRES DES SAGES ET ROYALLES OECONOMIES D'ESTAT, DOMESTIQUES, POLITICAL, AND MILITARY OF HENRY THE GREAT, THE EXAMPLE OF KINGS, THE PRINCE OF VIRTUES, OF ARMS & OF LAWS, & IN EFFECT THE FATHER OF HIS OWN. Amstelredam (sic.): Aletinosgraphe de Clearetimelee, & Graphexechon de Pistyariste, n.d. Two volumes bound together in one folio volume. 4 leaves + 535 pages and 3 leaves (of 4, excluding the title page of Volume II) + 459 pages. Text with marginal notes. Title page with a colored woodcut. Stains; spot restoration of some gouges. Binding in full leather, severely deteriorated, with scuffs on the flat surfaces and corners, raised bands, loss of leather on the spine, and weak stitching. This edition follows the one published at the Château de Sully, as it retains the typographical errors in pagination, though with other minor typographical differences. It is a pirated edition, produced without permission.