Apr 11, 2013 - Sale 2309

Sale 2309 - Lot 113

Price Realized: $ 3,360
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
FROISSART, JEAN. Le premier[-quart] volume . . . des croniques. Large woodcut historiated initial L on first title; woodcut heading and printer's metalcut device on the other titles; full-page Eustace woodcut device on last page of Volume 1. [7] (of [8]), 271; [6], 279; [6], 231, [1]; [2], 111, [1] leaves, including final blanks in third and fourth volumes; lacking blanks a8 and 2l8 in first volume and final blank in second. Printed in bâtarde type. 4 volumes in 3. 4to, 247x179 mm, late 17th-/early 18th-century calf gilt, Volume 2 spine chipped at top; occasional marginal stains, scattered minor repairs not affecting text, Volume 4 title rehinged; red sprinkled edges. (Paris: Guillaume Eustace [Volumes 1-2] and François Regnault [Volumes 3-4], 14 July 1513)

Additional Details

Early edition of the major contemporary account of the Hundred Years' War, "a gigantic panorama of (chiefly martial) events in the British Isles, France, Spain, the Low Countries, and sometimes even further afield, from 1327 to 1400" (ODNB). This edition not in Tchemerzine. See also lot 129.