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GILLES, NICOLE. Les Annales et Croniques de France depuis la Destruction de Troye, iusques au temps du Roy Loys unzieme. . . imprimees nouvellement . . . & additionees. 14 woodcut text illustrations; 6 full-page woodcut historiated genealogical tables; woodcut floriated and criblé initials throughout. [6], 130; [6], 151, [1] leaves, including final blank. 2 volumes in one. Folio, 318x205 mm, 20th-century 1/2 calf, boards covered with leaves from an unidentified incunable; scattered dampstains, occasional early underscoring and marginalia, small piece torn from top of final blank. Paris: Jean Ruelle, 1557
Scarce edition of a chronicle of French history from the destruction of Troy to the reign of Louis XI, originally published in 1492 and here edited with continuations to 1557 by Denis Sauvage de Fontenelles. Pettegree, Walsby, & Wilkinson 22905 locate copies at Troyes, Cambridge, and Moscow; this edition not in Potthast, NUC, or OCLC.
