Lot n° 67
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DES RUES (François). Description contenant toutes les singul - Lot 67
DES RUES (François). Description contenant toutes les singularitez des plus célèbres villes & places du Royaume de France. A Troyes, chez Noël Moreau, [circa 1625]. In-8, pagin. very faulty up to 319, then absent, sign. A-Cc 8 [except 2 leaves], figs, contemporary supple parchment, smooth spine, title in ink (disbound, accident to edge of 2 boards, stains to upper board; browning and foxing, snag affecting 2 letters on f.H7, one corner mq. in margin f. C4, ink stain on text f. I3; 2 leaves missing from notebook Y).
Extremely rare edition, the first published in Troyes, of this Description de la France, which first appeared in Coutances in 1605 under the title "Les Antiquités, fondations et singularités des plus célèbres villes", and was a great success. The book was subsequently taken up by popular printing centers: Rouen, then Troyes.
The illustration, entirely wood-engraved, features a portrait of King Louis XIII on the title, vignettes depicting towns throughout the text and on the last v° of the last f., as well as headbands, initials and culs-de-lampe. It should be noted that 57 entries are preceded by a woodcut, and that there are only 13 repeated woodcut models, i.e. a large number of cities represented by the same figure.
Absent from the BnF and CCfr catalogs, we have only managed to locate 6 copies of this edition in public collections (Zentralbibl. Zürich, Univ. of Aberdeen, BN de Madrid, Welseyan Univ., USA, and two at the Médiathèque de Troyes. Of the latter two, one is described as "in very poor condition" (cl. 12° 19104), the other is incomplete by 13 pages (cl. 12° 1577).
Provenance: old handwritten bookplates on the title, including Caillet, others crossed out.
(Brunet II, 651; L. Morin, Essai bibliographique sur les ouvrages de François Desrues, Troyes, 1925, p.39 sq. ed. Troyes a, slight variant on title).
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