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1659AQ19544A Paris sur l'Imprint A Leyde i.e. Leiden: Chez Jean Elsevier 1659. 16 514 120pp. Later calf ruled and lettered in gilt. A trifle rubbed. Marbled endpapers gilt dentelles bookplate of Le Mis. de Biencourt to FEP armorial bookplate of Biencourt-Poncins toe recto of FFEP recent bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to verso small marginal repairs to leaves F1-2 very occasional light spotting. A French reprint of the Elzevir edition of the same year of a series of twenty-six biographies of princely favourites thwarted by their own ambitions commonly attributed to French historian and librarian to Louis XIV Pierre Dupuy 1582-1651. Notable figures include inter alia Apelles advisor to Philip V of Macedon; Lucius Aelius Sejanus confidant of Emperor Tiberius; Pierre de la Broce councillor of Philippe II of France and Maio of Bari Grand Admiral of Sicily during the reign of William I. The work is appended by a detailed narrative by counsellor at the court of Louis XIII Michel de Marillac 1563-1632 concerning the events surrounding the assassination of his fellow courtier Concino Concini marquis dé Ancre d. 1617 at the behest of the King. The book was immensely successful and immediately and often spuriously reprinted. . 12mo. Chez Jean Elsevier unknown
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