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Henri II de Lorraine Duc de GUISE

Les memoires de feu Monsieur le Duc de Guise

Chez Edme Martin et Sébastien Larbre-Cramoisy, AParis 1668, In 4 (19x25,8cm), (16) 795pp. (6) (1bc.), relié.

First edition, uncommon. A title sticker with the arms of the Duke of Guise, Henry II of Lorraine (1614-1664). These memoirs were published by the Duke's secretary, the Sieur de Saint-Yon, who asked Philippe Goibeau to draft them. It will be noted, however, that Augustin Calmet, (bbl lorraine 594) does not doubt that these memoirs are in the duke's hands. Good impression in large print.
Binding full brown sheepskin speckled and icy contemporary. Back with nerves richly adorned. Title piece in brown morocco. Narrow slot with the bit in the head. Last box split narrowly on the upper joint. Missing one-third of the title coin. 3 corners slightly blunted. Pale letters with golden pencils were added where the ones in the title coin are missing, namely ME before MOIRE and G de Guise. Slight trace of pale wetting from p.122 in the upper margin, on a few leaves, then appearing erratically; this wetting becomes yellow from p. 744 to the end and is more pronounced.
Ex libris with 18th century weapons: SRI comes from Wiser eer Dinand Andreas.
"These Memoirs deal with the Naples expedition, where the Duke of Guise tries to make the claims of the House of Lorraine accepted on the kingdom of the Two Sicilies and his attempt ends with a captivity among the Spaniards" (Sources de the history of France, 785). Here is what the Abbe Gallois says in the Journal des Savants in 1668: "It must be admitted that there are in these Memoirs I do not know what, which can not be expressed and which is not ordinarily found in the stories, whether that comes from the particular genius of M. de Guise, or from birth, or perhaps from those who have themselves made great exploits, have a particular advantage in writing them. "

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