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A Share for Mine de Lessards
A 9% Life Annuity from Trésor Royal
Tags: 18th century, annuity, Bifolium, France, French, paper, printed, Royal Treasury, stamps
A Bond from Tresor Royal
Tags: 17th century, France, French, loan, parchment, Paris, printed, Royal Treasury
Government Loan for the War against France, a £700 Bond
Tags: 17th century, Exchequer, France, government loan, Lord Halifax, war
Les blasons des armes de la royale maison de Bourbon & de ses alliances
Histoire de Guillaume III
Two added title-pages, engr.; the first reads: Histoire metalique de Guillaume III, Roy de la Grande Bretaigne
Contains engravings by Romein de Hooghe.
The historie of France
In the Huntington copy, the second Earl of Bridgewater has signed the name "Tho: Dannett" to the dedication.
Colophon reads: London printed…
Tags: 16th century, folio, France, history, manuscript waste, purchase
Fabyan's chronicle
Special title page for volume 2: The seconde volume of Fabyans cronycle conteynyng the cronycles of Englande and of Fraunce, from the begynnyng of the reygne of…
Tags: 16th century, biography, France, Great Britain, history, marginalia, purchase, royalty
The history of France
Titlepages in red and black.
Tags: 18th century, France, history, octavo, Woolf gift
A generall historie of France
Supplemented mostly from works of Pierre Matthieu.
Engraved title-page, signed "Renold Elstrack sculpsit."
Text continuous despite pagination irregularities.
First leaf…
The historie of Philip de Commines Knight, Lord of Argenton.
With a final errata leaf.
For additional details on copies, see Michael Jones, "The reception of the Memoirs of Philippe de Commynes in early modern Britain" in "1521-2011 Philippe de Commynes"…
Tags: 16th century, folio, France, history, manuscript waste, purchase
Histoire de la paix sous le regne du tres-chrestien roy de France et de Nauarre, Henry IIII.
Leaves numbered irregularly.
Continued by: Mercure francois.
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A display of heraldry
The fifth edition much enlarged with great variety of bearings, To which is added A treatise of honour military and civil, according to the laws and…