Apr 11, 2013 - Sale 2309

Sale 2309 - Lot 121

Unsold
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(JOAN OF ARC.) Micqueau, Jean-Louis, translator. Aureliae urbis memorabilis ab Anglis obsidio, anno 1428. Et Joannae viraginis Lotharingae res gestae. 112 pages. 8vo, 157x102 mm, later brown paper wrappers; contents toned, title and last page heavily soiled; cloth folding case. Paris: Andreas Wechel, 1560

Additional Details

first edition of the account by Léon Tripault of the siege of Orléans and the exploits of Joan of Arc; second issue, with Wechel imprint, following the first printed the same year in Orléans by Pierre Trepperel. The French original appeared in 1576; curiously, a French translation of Micqueau's version was published in 1631. Lanéry d'Arc, Le Livre d'Or de Jeanne d'Arc 870.