Shelfmark
Gk.7.23
Author
Title
Le Parfait capitaine, autrement l'Abrégé des guerres des "Commentaires" de César. Augmenté d'un traité de l'interest des princes, et estats de la chrestienté avec la préface à Monseigneur le cardinal de Richelieu.
Publication, distribution, etc.
A Paris, : Chez Michel Bobin, au troisiesme Pilier de la grande Salle du Palais, à l'Esperance., M. DC. LVIII. [1658]
Physical description
2 parts in 1 ; 14 cm. (8vo)
Note
Pagination: [12], 250; 193, [1].
Note
Signatures: ã⁸ A-K¹² L⁶; ²A⁸ (-²A8) ²B¹-²H² ²I⁶.
Note
Includes printer's device; head- and tail-pieces; decorated initials.
Provenance
Ex dono label of Joseph Frederick Burrell, dated 1983, on front pastedown.
Provenance
Armorial bookplate, dated 1701, of Algernon Capel, Earl of Essex, on title page verso.
Binding
Early modern speckled calfskin over pasteboards. Covers decorated with gilt tolls on board edges. Spine with four sewing supports, decorated with gilt tools and titling ("Parfi capit"). Textblock trimmed and sprinkled red. Endpapers of undecorated paper; one flyleaf at both ends of the textblock.
Copy-specific note
Leaf L6 missing.
Copy-specific note
Former ECL shelfmark: DDk.6.8.
Subject
Military art and science Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Caesar, Julius De bello Gallico.
Added entry--name
Richelieu, Armand Jean du Plessis, 1585 - 1642 writer of introduction.
Added entry--name
Bobin, Michel, active 1638 - 1681 printer.
Added entry--name
Burrell, Joseph Frederick, 1909 - 1983 former owner.
Added entry--name
Capel, Algernon, 1670 - 1710 Earl of Essex, former owner.
Added entry--place
France Paris.
Language code
fre
Identifier
B51414