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[MIGNAULT, Claude.] Discours sur la chrestienne & louable enterprise de haut & puissant Prince,
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[MIGNAULT, Claude.] Discours sur la chrestienne & louable enterprise de haut & puissant Prince, Monseigneur Charles de Lorraine, Marquis de Maine, contre le grand Turc, en l’an 1572. Paris: Denys du Pré, 1572. Small 4° (220 x 154mm). Printer’s device on title, 2 woodcut headpieces. (Light spotting at beginning.) Blue morocco by Chambrolle-Duru, stamped in blind with gilt cornerpieces, spine decorated and lettered in gilt, gilt edges, turn-ins (extremities very lightly rubbed).
RARE FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH of this poem advocating the war against the Turks. A Latin translation Eidylium de foelici et christiana profectione was published in the same year.
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RARE FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH of this poem advocating the war against the Turks. A Latin translation Eidylium de foelici et christiana profectione was published in the same year.
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[MIGNAULT, Claude.] Discours sur la chrestienne & louable enterprise de haut & puissant Prince, Monseigneur Charles de Lorraine, Marquis de Maine, contre le grand Turc, en l’an 1572. Paris: Denys du Pré, 1572. Small 4° (220 x 154mm). Printer’s device on title, 2 woodcut headpieces. (Light spotting at beginning.) Blue morocco by Chambrolle-Duru, stamped in blind with gilt cornerpieces, spine decorated and lettered in gilt, gilt edges, turn-ins (extremities very lightly rubbed).
RARE FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH of this poem advocating the war against the Turks. A Latin translation Eidylium de foelici et christiana profectione was published in the same year.
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RARE FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH of this poem advocating the war against the Turks. A Latin translation Eidylium de foelici et christiana profectione was published in the same year.
View on Christie's.com
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