Gd.6.14-15
La vie D'Armand Jean cardinal duc de Richelieu. Principal ministre d'Etat sous Louis XIII. roi de France et de Navarre..
Seconde edition, reveuë et augmentée par l'auteur..
A Cologne, [i.e. Amsterdam] : Chez ****. [i.e. Huguetan?], M.DC.XCVI. [1696]
2 v. ([22], 551, [1] p. ; 606, [54] p.) : ill., map ; 16 cm. (12mo)
Anonymous. By Jean Le Clerc (cf. Barbier, A. A. Ouvrages anonymes, v. 4, col. 1009).
Fictitious imprint. Printed in Amsterdam by Huguetan? (cf. Barbier)
Title-pages printed in red and black
Includes index.
Frontispiece port. and folded map in v. 1 ; added engraved t.p. in v. 2 (= p. [1-2]).
Signatures: v. 1: *¹²(-*12) A-Z¹² ; pi¹ A¹²(-A12) B-Z¹² Aa-Dd¹² Ee⁶.
Book label of Nicholas Mann inside front cover, recording donation to Eton College in 1754. Ms. on front endpaper of v.1: "N. Mann".
Contemporary sprinkled calf; five raised bands; spine gold-tooled, with gilt title: "Vie de Richelie" and volume number; text block edges sprinkled red.
Previous shelfmark: Bc.7.28-29.
An additional V1-V2 (in a differerent setting) bound between 2X3 and 2X4.
Imperfect: wants leaf *8 (blank).
Mann, Nicholas, ? - -1753 former owner.
Netherlands Amsterdam.
fre
B47955