Apr 11, 2013 - Sale 2309
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Sale 2309 - Lot 129

Price Realized: $ 1,320
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
MONSTRELET, ENGUERRAND DE. Volume Premier[-Troisieme] des Chroniques. Edited by Denis Sauvage. Printer's woodcut device on titles. [12], 324, [6]; [8], 201, [5]; [10], 255, [12] (of [13]) leaves; lacking Volume 3 final blank. 3 volumes. Folio, 325x214 mm, early 19th-century English russia gilt with multiple fillet border on covers incorporating floral cornerpieces and emblems of knighthood, rebacked retaining original backstrips; scattered marginal foxing, Volume 1 with inscription dated 1624 on title and wax stain on 3A1, single tiny wormhole through blank outer margin at end of Volume 3. Ditton Park bookplates. Paris: (Jean Le Blanc for) Pierre l'Huillier, 1572
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first sauvage edition of a contemporary continuation of Froissart's Chronicle (lots 113-114) into the first half of the 15th century and the final stages of the Hundred Years' War, with further continuations by other authors to 1516. Adams M1612-13; Potthast, page 792; Tchemerzine IV (1977), 867 (calling for 3 additional leaves at the end of Volume 1, apparently in error, which are not present here).