[Jacques du Breul & Claude Malingre] - Les Antiquitez de la
[Jacques du Breul & Claude Malingre] - Les Antiquitez de la ville de Paris. Contenans la recherche nouvelle des fondations et establissemens des églises, chapelles, monastères, hospitaux, hostels, maisons remarquables, fontaines, regards, quais, ponts et autres ouvrages curieux - Paris, P. Rocolet, C. Besongne, etc., .- Full tan calf binding of the time, with restored back -802 pp., (+12ff)., 147 pp., (+3) ff., 9 figures including one out of text folio (35 x 24 cm)Nice condition: restored binding of the time (original back readjusted on restored leather) - fresh inside - a few clear water stains in the margin, a few small wormholes without affecting the text, leaf 219 bound after 430, no. inversions between pp. 435 to 440- Complete The book of du Breul marks the first link in a long chain of historians, some merely copied shamelessly of the whole passages of the work of their predecessor. It presents in its first part the history of Paris until the death of Henri IV twice published in small format, the third edition in large format in ° F has been supplemented by Malingre by the work performed since under Louis XIII. Read More