144 - [Binding with coat of arms] DAVILA (Enrico Caterino). History of the Civil Wars of France. Containing all the most memorable events that took place during the reigns of four kings—Francis II, Charles IX, Henry III, and Henry IV, known as “the Great”—up to and including the Peace of Vervins. Written in Italian by H. C. Davila and translated into French by I. Baudoin. With a very comprehensive index of proper names and main subjects. Paris, P. Rocolet, 1644. 2 folio volumes, full sheepskin, decorated ribbed spine, central coat of arms. Bindings damaged (split hinges, detached covers, some pages browned).

[Binding with coat of arms] DAVILA (Enrico Caterino). History of the Civil Wars of France. Containing all the most memorable events that took place during the reigns of four kings—Francis II, Charles IX, Henry III, and Henry IV, known as “the Great”—up to and including the Peace of Vervins. Written in Italian by H. C. Davila and translated into French by I. Baudoin. With a very comprehensive index of proper names and main subjects. Paris, P. Rocolet, 1644. 2 folio volumes, full sheepskin, decorated ribbed spine, central coat of arms. Bindings damaged (split hinges, detached covers, some pages browned). First edition of J. Baudoin’s translation, illustrated with an allegorical plate, a portrait of the author as a separate insert, and a vignette and initial engraved by Grégoire Huret. Binding bearing the coat of arms of the Marquise Marguerite-Delphine de VALBELLE de TOURVES (1705–1784), daughter of Cosme-Maximilien-Louis-Joseph, Marquis de Tourves, President of the Parliament of Provence, and Marie-Anne de Demandolx de Trigance. On June 1, 1723, she married her cousin André-Geoffroy de Valbelle, Marquis de Rians, Baron de Meyrargues (Bouches-du-Rhône), and cavalry camp commander, who died in 1735.