SULLY, MAXIMILIEN DE BÉTHUNE, Duc de. Mémoires. 58 engraved portraits. Half-titles. Errata leaf at end of Volume 1; plate list at end of Volume 3. 3 volumes. 4to, contemporary mottled calf gilt with red and green morocco lettering pieces, joints cracked or starting. "Londres" [i. e., Paris], 1745
First edition edited by the Abbé de L'Escluse des Loges, who revised the narrative and changed it from the third to the first person. The Mémoires, which were actually composed by Sully's secretaries rather than by Sully himself, were originally published in 1638. "Maximilien de Béthune (1560-1641), created Duke de Sully by Henry IV, the latter's finance minister . . . reformed the fiscal system of France most successfully and saw much beyond the range of what he actually accomplished. Moreover, he knew--which is the criterion of greatness in a fiscal administrator--how to make fiscal policy an element and tool of economic policy"--Schumpeter, page 169. Brunet V, 588-89; Cohen-de Ricci 961; Rothschild 2238. Here as in the Rothschild set, a portrait of Charles, Cardinal de Bourbon, has been substituted for that of Charles, Cardinal de Lorraine, in Volume 1, and an additional portrait of Anne d'Autriche bound in Volume 2.
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