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C., H. Abbrege de l'Histoire Françoyse, avec les Effigies des Roys, tirées des plus rares & excellentz Cabinetz de la France. 61 woodcut portraits of French kings, each flanked by allegorical figures; title and each page of text within varying woodcut historiated borders. [34] leaves. Folio, 334x219 mm, late 19th-/early 20th-century vellum with rubbed leather lettering piece, covers slightly discolored and warped; title lightly soiled and rehinged; morocco-edged board slipcase. Paris: Jean Le Clerc, 1585
first edition of a illustrated collection of brief lives of French kings from Pharamond to Henry III. Brun, Le Livre Illustré Français de la Renaissance, page 105; French Vernacular Books 8015 (this edition); Harvard/Mortimer-French 1-2 (1596 and 1599 editions).
