Apr 23, 2007 - Sale 2111

Sale 2111 - Lot 113

Price Realized: $ 420
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250
ROSSET, FRANÇOIS DE. Les Histoires Tragiques de Nostre Temps . . . Derniere Edition, reveuë, corrigée & augmentée. [8], 476 [i. e., 477] pages. 8vo, contemporary vellum; contents browned and dampstained, outer margins trimmed close without text loss, scattered ink blots. Lyon: Clément Petit, 1653

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Popular collection of tales of tragic deaths first published in 1619. Sixain 31 is quoted on page 413 at the end of the chapter on the death of the Duc de Montmorency, and quatrain 49 from Century 9 on the last page of the final chapter on the death of King Charles I of England. This edition not in OCLC or RLIN.