May 01, 2014 - Sale 2348
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Sale 2348 - Lot 68

Price Realized: $ 2,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
FROISSART, JEAN. Le premier[-quart] volume . . . des croniques. Woodcut heading and printer's metalcut device on Volume 2-4 titles; full-page Eustace woodcut device on last page of Volume 1. [6] (of [8]), 271; [6], 279; [6], 231, [1]; [2], 111, [1] leaves, including final blanks in third and fourth volumes; first volume lacks title (replaced with title from 1505 edition printed by Michel Le Noir), blank a8, and final blank, second volume lacks final blank. Printed in bâtarde type. 4 volumes in 3. 4to, 247x179 mm, late 17th-/early 18th-century calf gilt, Volume 2 spine chipped at top; marginal dampstaining with traces of mold at end of Volume 1, leaves in last gathering rehinged, ll1 torn in upper inner corner and restored with text loss, scattered other minor repairs generally not affecting text, marginal dampstaining on Volume 4 opening leaves, title rehinged; red sprinkled edges. (Paris: Guillaume Eustace, 1514 [Volumes 1-2]); (François Regnault, 14 July 1513 [Volumes 3-4])
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Mixed set of early editions of the major contemporary account of the Hundred Years' War, "a gigantic panorama of (chiefly martial) events in the British Isles, France, Spain, the Low Countries, and sometimes even further afield, from 1327 to 1400" (ODNB).