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Lot n° 260

SANDRAS DE COURTILZ, Gatien.

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Political will of the Marquis de Louvois. First Minister of State under the reign of Louis XIV. King of France [...]. Cologne, Le Politique, 1695. 1 vol. in-12. Full contemporary fawn calf, gilt coat of arms in the centre of the boards, triple gilt fillet, spine ribbed and decorated with the cipher, red morocco title-piece, gilt edges. Complete with the frontispiece. Apocryphal will of François-Michel Le Tellier, marquis de Louvois (1639-1691) by the polygrapher and memorialist Courtilz de Sandras (1644-1712), who had already written Colbert's will in 1693. > Copy of Marie-Marguerite Le Gendre, Marquise du Châtel. Ex-libris of Amédée Rigaud, bearing the motto: " Bona Fide sine Fraude ", pasted on the upper back cover. O.H.R. pl.188. Slight rubbing to corners and spines.