[MATTHIEU (Pierre)]. Histoire de France et des choses memora - Lot 64

[MATTHIEU (Pierre)]. Histoire de France et des choses memorables advenues aux provinces estrangeres durant sept annees de paix. Du règne du Roy Henry IIII. King of France & Navarre. Divisée en sept livres. Paris, I. Mettayer & M. Guillemot, 1606. 2 vol. in-8° of [20] ff, 692 pp, [54] ff ; [8] ff, 802 pp, [55] ff. Royal arms on title. Soft ivory vellum, spine decorated with fleur-de-lys and gilt fillets, title and tom. handwritten in ink, large central gilt iron on boards within double gilt fillet, visible seams, gilt edges (Period binding). Edition published the year after the original, in-4°, by the same publishers, with copper illustrations by FORNAZERIS. The author, a royal historiographer born in Pesmes, was principal of the Collège de Vercel at the beginning of his career. From the library of Pierre GUIRAUD, after those of Reinaud de Génas and Testu de Balincourt (Nîmes families), with his engraved bookplate. Faded gilt, a few stains to binding, some wetness.