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CAYET (Pierre Victor PALMA). A Nine-Day Chronology, containing the History of the War during the Reign of the Most Christian King of France and Navarre, Henry IIII […]. Paris: Jean Richer, 1608. 3 volumes in-12, sheepskin, decorated ribbed spine (late 17th-century binding). FIRST EDITION of one of the earliest examples of periodical news and the modern gazette in France. A frontispiece title page engraved by L. GAULTIER. Complete, including the errata page at the end of Volume III. The work was likely sold during the Revolution, as evidenced by a handwritten annotation on the flyleaf: “48 livres in assignats, including the seven-year chronology.” ” Binding wear; copy with narrow margins, with damage to the running title and marginal notes on several folios; brown stains on the first five and last five folios of Volume I.
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