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Cronique et histoyre faicte et composee par feu messire Philippe de Cômines . contenant les choses aduenues durant le regne du Roy Loys unzieme tant en France Bourgongne Flandres Artthois Angleterre que Espagne et lieu o circonvoisins. Nouuell.

1529Best.-Nr. 54624Paris 1529 Colophon: 24 Mars 1524 pour Francoys Regnault - Colophon: 2. Daoust August pour maistre Enguillebert de Marnef 1524. Large 4to. 27 x 20 cm. Contemp. full calf. Panelled covers with blindtooled rolls inner panel with cornerpieces and in the middle an oval arabesque medaillon. 5 raised bands. Upper and lower compartments of spine repaired. 2 small nicks at bands on spine. light wear along fronthinge. Corners neathly repaired. Collation Cronique et Histoire: Title-page with large and broad ornamental woodcut borders consisting of 6 pieces. A large printers woodcut device. Ff 4 Ff 106. Colophon on folio CVI 106 some misfoliation - signatures correct. - Collation Croniques Charles VIII: Title-page printed in red and black inside large ornamental woodcut borders. In the middle printers woodcut device.Ff 4 Ff 54. Colophon on LIIII 54 - many misfoliations - signatures correct. On F 4 Arms of France in a large woodcut. Some annotations in a contemporary hand. - Both work with many large initials in woodcut. Lower margins throughout browned and with some repairs some leaves in the middle having some heavy wormtracts in lower margins. Some corners at end restored. In the second work a wormtract in outer margins but decreasing toward end. Upper right corners with a faint dampstain. Scarce early editions of these works that only later obtained the name of "Memoires" and they are a major primary source for 15th century European history. Commines is called "the first critical and philosophical historian since classical times" and "the first truly modern writer"."In 1498 fifteen years after the death of Louis XI of France Commines's work was completed first published in 1524 in Paris and is considered a historical record of immense importance largely because of its author's cynical and forthright attitude to the events and machinations he had witnessed. His writings reveal many of the less savory aspects of the reign of Louis XI and Commines related them without apology insisting that the late king's virtues outweighed his vices. He is regarded as a major primary source for 15th century European history."The Mémoires are divided into "books" the first six of which were written between 1488 and 1494 and relate the course of events from the beginning of Commines' career 1464 up to the death of King Louis. The remaining two books were written between 1497 and 1501 printed in 1528 and deal with the Italian wars ending in the death of King Charles VIII of France."Brunet II189-190. - Adams 2441 and Adams 2443 but not quite the same collation. - Tchemerzine III 452-54 but differences in collations. hardcover

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COMMINES, Philippe deBiblio.com

Les Memoires de Messire Philippe de Comines Seigneur d'Argenton Contenans l'Histoire des Roys Louys XI & Charles VIII depuis l'an 1464 jusques en 1498. Revues & corrigez sur divers Manuscrits & anciennes Impressions. Augmentez de plusieurs Traictez Contracts Testaments autres Actes & de diverses Observations. Par Denys Godefroy Conseiller & Historiographe ordinaire du Roy

1649Best.-Nr. QQ0485Imprimerie Royale 1649. Original full speckled calf. Raised bands ornate gilt decor and gilt lettering to spine. Gilt decor to board edges. Small loss to base and top of spine. Small stain to rear board c. 5.5 x 4cm. Starting at base of spine over hinges to front 18cm and rear 8cm board but hinges holding firm. Wear to board corners. Folio 38.4 x 27.5cm. All edges speckled brown. A few tiny ink spots to fore-edges. Original marbled endpapers uncracked at gutters. Half-title. Large vignette printer's device to title page. Elaborate engraved head- and tail-pieces and decorated initials. Two double-page genealogical tables. A little light scattered foxing throughout. Philippe de Commines also Commynes or Comines; 1447-1511 humanist writer and diplomat first in service to the Burgundian duke Charles the Bold and then to Charles' great rival Louis XI of France and his successors Charles VIII and Louis XII. Commines' Memoires written between 1488 and 1501 and first published in 1524 cover in their first part the events from the start of Commines' career to the death of Louis XI and in their second the Italian wars under Charles VIII. The Memoires have never been out of print; they remain foundational not just as historical sources on 15th century France but as a work that shaped the practice of history itself. In their psychological insight and attention to motives as well as events the Memoires 'bear witness to a watershed moment for modern conceptions of both historiography and the individual subject' essentially inventing 'a new literary genre one defined by its first-person vision of history' Kleiman 2013 Philippe de Commynes: Memory Betrayal Text pp. 3 8. This important new 1649 edition edited by the jurist Denis Godefroy 1549-1622 replaced the previous standard version of the text the 1552 Denis Sauvage edition. Beautifully produced by Sebastien Cramoisy at the Imprimerie Royal then based in the Louvre this edition drew on two manuscript copies as well as the Sauvage version and included considerable additional contextual material. Brunet II 191; 'belle edition'. Robust packaging. Tracking is always added to USA orders. It can be added to other overseas orders on request. Used books are exempt from USA tariffs. 1st edition thus. Good. 56 572 12pp. Imprimerie Royale Hardcover

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Les Memoires de Messire Philippe de Commines Sr. d'Argenton. Derniere edition.

1648Best.-Nr. 21108371648. Leiden: Chez les Elzeviers. 1648. 12mo. Late 19th-century full vellum with yapp edges red morocco lettering-piece to spine gilt edges; pp. xxiv 765 19 with engraved title-page woodcut initials head- and tailpieces; light spotting to vellum overall an attractive clean copy; early ownership inscription cancelled and later ""Jean Paul Fesnim"" to title; modern bookplate to front pastedown.First Elzevir edition of Commines's celebrated contemporary account of the reign and military campaigns of Louis XI and Charles VIII of France.Philippe de Commines 1447-1511 was a humanist chronicler and diplomat in the courts of Burgundy and France. His Memoires was first published between 1524 and 1528 achieving immediate success with numerous reprints and earning the unique distinction among French-language texts of never having gone out of print. The first part written in the 1480s focuses on the reign of Louis XI particularly his rivalry with Charles the Bold while the second part composed in the 1490s examines Charles VIII's Italian campaign. Commines who served in a diplomatic capacity under both French monarchs devotes particular attention to the rise and fall of the Florentine preacher Girolamo Savonarola and the ultimate failure of French military and political ambitions in Italy.Commines's ""graphic style . and above all the keenness of his insight into the motives of his contemporaries an insight undimmed by undue regard for principles of right and wrong make this work one of the great classics of history"" Britannica. Often referred to as the ""French Machiavelli"" he shares affinities with the Italian political thinker particularly in his pragmatic and unsentimental approach to power.Willems 634; Tchemerzine III p. 468 ""jolie edition elzevirienne tres recherchee"". hardcover

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Commines, Philippe deBiblio.com

Les Memoires de Messire Philippe de Commines cheualier seigneur d'Argenton: sur les faicts & gestes abbregees de Loys XI & Charles VIII. son fils rois de France: Avec la vie de Mess. Angelo Cattho archeuesque de Vienne: Plus deux Epistres de Jean Sleidan en la recommandation de l'Autheur. Le tout reveu & corrige de noveau. Item un Indice des choses plus remarquables

1593Best.-Nr. 16171Geneva: Pour Jaques Chouet De l'imprimerie de Antoine Blanc 1593 A new edition of the revised version of Commines' work edited by Denis Sauvage. Contemporary limp vellum with hand lettered spine and beveled edges. . Twelvemo. Woodcut border on title page; three copper engraved portraits with descriptive text on two leaves it is worth noting that these two leaves are often lacking in other copies but are present in this copy. Some staining to covers and lacking the leather ties. Some soiling on the title page in addition to some staining from an old ink armorial stamp on the verso which has bled through. Intermittent foxing and overall light browning. Contemporary ownership signature at bottom of the title page. A very good copy. Philippe de Commines was a writer and diplomat in the courts of Burgundy and France. He has been called "the first truly modern writer" Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve and "the first critical and philosophical historian since classical times" Oxford Companion to English Literature. His analyses of the contemporary political scene are what made him virtually unique in his own time. The Mémoires are divided into "books" the first six of which were written between 1488 and 1494 and relate the course of events from the beginning of Commines' career 1464 up to the death of King Louis. The remaining two books were written between 1497 and 1501 printed in 1528 and deal with the Italian wars ending in the death of King Charles VIII of France. Denis Sauvage 1520-1587 is known for his four-volume edition of Froissart's Chronicles 1559-1561. Pour Jaques Chouet [De l'imprimerie de Antoine Blanc], hardcover