VAN WICQUEFORT, Abraham. Lot n° 273

Mémoires touchant les ambassadeurs et les ministres publics by L. M. P. Cologne, Pierre du Marteau, 1676. 1 vol. in-16. Tan calf, gilt arms in the centre of the boards, spine gilt, gilt title. 600 pp. Edition published in the year of the original by the same publisher, not listed by Willems (1902) who gives a collation of [2], 627 pp. The copy presented here has the same collation as the one digitized by the Bibliothèque nationale de France. > This copy bears the arms of François Dugué, treasurer of France at the office of Lyon in 1611, general receiver and payer of the rents of the Hôtel de Ville de Paris in 1614, ordinary adviser to the king. His son, who was also called François, used the same irons. Unidentified 18th century handwritten bookplate on the title page. O.H.R. pl. 335. Heavy wear to headpieces, spines and corners.