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[ORLÉANS]. D'AUMALE, Duc. - Lot 609
[ORLÉANS]. D'AUMALE, Duc.
Histoire des Princes de Condé pendant les XVIe & XVIIe siècles. Paris, Michel Lévy frères, 1863 - 1889. 5 vol. in-8. Paperback.
Book containing 5 portrait-frontispices and 2 folding maps.
Attached :
- CHAMBELLAND, Claude-Antoine. Life of L. J. de Bourbon-Condé [...]. Paris, Dentu, 1819. 3 vols. in-8.
Half calf of the period, smooth spine decorated, gilt title and tomaison.
- CRÉTINEAU-JOLY, Jacques. History of the last three princes of the house of Condé. Paris, Berche et Tralin, 1872. 2 vol. in-8. Vellum, gilt fleur-de-lys in spandrels on the boards, smooth spine decorated, gilt title and tomaison.
Portraits-frontispices of the Duc d'Enghien by Baudran and of the Princess Louise de Condé.
First edition of this work considered as one of the most important of Crétineau-Joly, a remarkable historian and nicknamed the Homer of the Vendée.
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