(History). Gabriel Naudé. "Addition to the... Lot 53

(History). Gabriel Naudé. "Addition to the history of Louis XI. Chez François Targe, 1630, in-12 bound in full contemporary basane. Spine with decorated nerves. (Slightly later binding).(1 blank ff) Title page (10 ff) and 378 pages (6 ff of table and privilege). Paper a little yellowed. Small worm work at the foot and a slight rubbing at the inter-nerve, edge of boards partly rubbed. Good copy, solidly bound. Rare first edition. French scholar, bibliographer and historian. He made solid literary and philosophical studies accompanied by immense readings, before undertaking medical studies which he finished in 1628. In 1622, he became the librarian of President de Mesmes. All his life, he passionately searched for rare editions and daring books, cataloguing and classifying an enormous mass of works. He appears as "an original and picturesque type of Parisian humanist, capable of enthusiasm, but to whom one does not impose it, vigilant, caustic, ardent to learn, slower to believe, quick to doubt." (R. Pintard). On his return from Rome, he became Mazarin's librarian.