Thou, Jacques de
Historiarum sui temporis libri CXXXVIII
£580
Auction: 05 February 2025 from 10:00 GMT
Description
Geneva: heirs of Pierre de la Rovière, 1626-30. 5 volumes in 4, folio, contemporary vellum with arabesque centrepieces to covers in blind, woodcut vignettes to title-pages, first title-page printed in red and black [USTC 6702032];
Aleman, Mateo. The Rogue: or, the Life of Guzman de Alfarache. Written in Spanish. To which is added, the Tragi-Comedy of Calisto and Melibea, represented in Celestina. The Third Edition Corrected. London: by R. B. for Robert Allot, 1634. Folio, [36] 267, [17] 357, [15] pp., bound without the main text of The Spanish Bawd at rear, contemporary sheep, 2G6 a medial blank, lacking endpapers, V6 closed tear at foot, tears in 2I3-6 and 2K1 [STC 291];
Gifford, John. The History of France, from the Earliest Times, to the Present Important Era. London: printed by C. Lowndes, and sold by W. Locke, 1791. First edition, 4 volumes, 4to, contemporary tree calf, red and green morocco labels to spines, engraved frontispiece (trimmed at foot), folding map, 46 portrait plates (lacking directions to the binder leaf and full collation not established, variable damp-staining to plates in volume 3;
and 10 others similar, including: [Charles Dodd], The Church History of England … chiefly with regard to Catholicks, Brussels [i.e. London?], 1737-40 (3 volumes in 2, folio, contemporary calf); Bartolomeo Pinelli, Raccolta di no. 100 soggetti li piu rimarcheovoli dell' istoria Romana, Rome, 1821 (oblong 4to, later half sheep, etched plates); Jacques du Thou, Nominum propriorum virorum, mulierum, populorum, etc. quae in viri illustris Jacobi Augusti Thuani historiis leguntur index, Geneva: Pierre Aubert, 1634 (4to, contemporary calf); Thomas Gataker, Marci Antonini imperatoris, de rebus suis, London, 1697 (4to, contemporary calf, engraved portrait); Robert Douglas, The Peerage of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1764 (folio, contemporary calf); Robert Monteith, The History of the Troubles of Great Britain, 1735 (folio, contemporary calf), and similar, sold as seen not subject to return (22)
Provenance
From the library of the Gordon family of Letterfourie, Moray, Scotland.