BETHUNE Maximilien de, Duc de SullyLivre Rare Book
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1752176932A Londres A Londres, 1752. 8 volumes In-12 reliés plein veau brun, dos à nerfs très ornés de filets et fleurons dorés, triple filets d'ecadrement sur les deux plats de chaque volume avec fer à la fleur de lys dans les quatre coins, tranches marbrées, gardes de papier marbré. LX + 424 + VIII + 567 +X + 577 + VI + 464 +VIII + 493 + VI + 489 + VI + 497 + VI + 378 pages. Des frottements aux reliures, mors fragilisés dont deux partiellement fendus, le deuxième plat du tome II présente un manque de cuir. Le corps des ouvrages est en bon état, on signale juste une déchirure à la page de titre sans manque, des annotations d'appartenance en pages de gardes blanches avec mentions pour restitution en cas de perte au tome IV, une trace d'humidité marginale au tome VIII, le deuxième plat du tome I qui est un peu déformé, des coins un peu émoussés. Malgré les défauts signalés, dont notre prix tient compte, reste un ensemble très correct pour ces mémoires recherchées et peu courantes complètes.
1781181665Dublin : printed by R. Marchbank for Messrs. W. Watson Sleater Burnet Colles Moncrieffe and 11 others in Dublin 1781. Fifth Edition. Hardback. Very good copies all finely bound in full contemporary aniline calf. Gilt cross bands with the gilt-blocked leather title labels. Minor generalised wear to the extremities. An uncommonly good set - scans and additional bibliographic detail on request.; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; Referenced by: ESTC T118210. Complete in 6 volumes. Physical desc.: 6v.plates : mapport. ; 12°. Notes: A very free adaptation by Pierre Mathurin de L'Ecluse des Loges. The dedication is signed by the translator: Charlotte Lennox but it is said to have in fact been written by Samuel Johnson. Dublin : printed by R. Marchbank, for Messrs. W. Watson, Sleater, Burnet, Colles, Moncrieffe, [and 11 others in Dublin] hardcover
1761elala1578London: Printed For A.Millar 1761. 1761. 3 Volumes. 4to. pp. 3 p.l. xxxiii 540; 1 p.l. viii 555; vii 406 122index. contemporary mottled calf gilt backs worn spine ends chipped joints cracked. Third Edition of the English Translation. As finance minister in the reign of Henry IV Sully introduced many reforms and removed many abuses of tax-collecting managing to save between 1600 and 1610 an average of a million livres a year. Sully also served as grand commissioner of public works superintendent of fortifications and grand master of artillery in addition to being appointed governor of Mantes and of Jargau. He negotiated the treaty of peace in 1602 and the following year represented Henry at the court of James I of England. Appended here is an account of the trial of Ravaillac for the murder of Henry the Great. Hardcover. London: Printed For A.Millar, 1761. Hardcover
1747MLLmoSUL93London ie. Paris: 1747. 1747. 3 Volumes. 4to. pp. 2 p.l. xxxvi 607; 2 p.l. x 612; 2 p.l. 617 ie. 619 1errata. with half-titles. titles in red & black with engraved vignettes. 3 engraved headpieces by Fessard after Gravelot. woodcut ornaments & initials. lacking engraved frontis. of Henri IV - later portrait & engraving inserted. contemporary mottled calf gilt backs bit rubbed wear to corners & spine ends some scattered light foxing browning to margins of last few leaves in Vol. II pen notes on first title. MEMOIRS OF THE CELEBRATED FRENCH STATESMAN AND FINANCE MINISTER UNDER HENRI IV. BRUNET V 589. CFCIORANESCU 63704. CFKRESS 4876. Hardcover. London [ie. Paris]: 1747. Hardcover
1778375380London: Printed for J. Rivington and Sons J. Dodsley S. Crowder G. Robinson T. Cadell and T. Evans 1778. A New edition. Frontispieces in vol. 1. 5 vols. 8vo. Bound in three-quarters red morocco with marbled paper boards gilt borders and spine. Edgewear but very good. A New edition. Frontispieces in vol. 1. 5 vols. 8vo. Reprint of the standard English edition. Sully was renowned for his reform of 17th century French finance and for his promotion of agriculture. He opposed "the theory of the mercantile school and anticipated by more than a century the doctrines of the physiocrats" Palgrave. Coquelin & Guillaumin II 684 ff Printed for J. Rivington and Sons, J. Dodsley, S. Crowder, G. Robinson, T. Cadell, and T. Evans unknown
1775263037Amsterdam: Chez tous les Libraires de Paris & du Royaume 1775. hardcover. very good. Small vignette with NB initials on titles and several other engraved headpieces throughout. XLVIII 180 188; 4 181-304 189-442 pages. 2 volumes 8vo bound in full contemporary brown calf; simple gilt-ruled spines with black leather labels worn at ends and with small ex-library tickets affixed; marbled endpapers. Amsterdam: Chez tous les Libraires de Paris & du Royaume 1775. Nouvelle edition par M. l'Abbe Baudeau. A very good copy clean and tight. Scarce - OCLC lists only 7 copies.<br/><br/> Each volume is in two separately paged sections numbered continuously between volumes: Memoires 304 pages; Observations 442 pages.<br/><br/> Chez tous les Libraires de Paris & du Royaume unknown books
1775263037Amsterdam: Chez tous les Libraires de Paris & du Royaume 1775. hardcover. very good. Small vignette with NB initials on titles and several other engraved headpieces throughout. XLVIII 180 188; 4 181-304 189-442 pages. 2 volumes 8vo bound in full contemporary brown calf; simple gilt-ruled spines with black leather labels worn at ends and with small ex-library tickets affixed; marbled endpapers. Amsterdam: Chez tous les Libraires de Paris & du Royaume 1775. Nouvelle edition par M. l'Abbe Baudeau. A very good copy clean and tight. Scarce - OCLC lists only 7 copies.<br/> <br/> Each volume is in two separately paged sections numbered continuously between volumes: Memoires 304 pages; Observations 442 pages.<br/> <br/> Chez tous les Libraires de Paris & du Royaume unknown
172542491725 Amsterdam, aux dépens de la Compagnie, [Thévoux], 1725. Complet en 12 vol. in-12: 8 x 14 cm. Première édition complète de l'ouvrage de Sully d'après les manuscrits originaux. (Avezoux, Sully à travers l'Histoire, 2001: p. 385 / Dictionnaire bibliographique, 1791: p. 129). La première publication de parties des Mémoires, abondemment retravaillées par l'Abbé de l'Ecluse des Loges, son édtieur, remonte à 1638. (Quérard, IX, 290). Reliure de l'époque en plein veau, dos à 4 nerfs, pièces de titre en maroquin rouge, tomaisons en doré, entrenerfs ornés de dentelles et de fers, tranches rouges. Inscription "P.V.L." sur le premier plat. Ex-Libris probablement aux armes des barons Huyssen van Kattendijke portant la devise "Nec Timede, Nec Tumide" (ni craintif ni fier). Légers manques aux coiffes, reliures quelque peu frottées, toutefois ensemble en très bon état général, très agréable.
1778FB106 (1 to 5) /8J Rivington 1778. Fine. 15 23 3.5. Full tree calf with black title plates gilt decoration banding and lettering on the spine.volumes. I II III IV and V. Stunning binding.Sully left a collection of memoirs Mémoires otherwise known as the Économies royales 1638 written in the second person very valuable for the history of the time and as an autobiography in spite of the fact that they contain many fictions such as a mission undertaken by Sully to Queen Elizabeth I of England in 1601.<strong>Maximilien de Béthune 1st Duke of Sully Marquis of Rosny and Nogent Count of Muret and Villebon Viscount of Meaux</strong> 13 December 1560 – 22 December 1641 was a nobleman soldier statesman and counselor of King Henry IV of France. Historians emphasize Sully's role in building a strong centralized administrative system in France using coercion and highly effective new administrative techniques. While not all of his policies were original he used them well to revitalize France after the European Religious Wars. Most however were repealed by later monarchs who preferred absolute power. Historians have also studied his Neostoicism and his ideas about virtue prudence and discipline. J Rivington unknown
1747178811London i.e. Paris 1747. An exceptional set Second de L'Ecluse edition extra-illustrated as often. With 72 portraits and 3 additional engravings this is the most extensively illustrated copy that we have traced in commerce historical auction records and reference works. Sully's Memoires was first published from 1638 to 1662. This is a reprint of the revised edition published by Pierre-Mathurin de L'Écluse des Loges in 1745 featuring the same text with altered title pages. Some copies of both the 1745 and 1747 de L'Ecluse editions were bound with a variable number of engraved portraits by Michel Odieuvre; Brunet calls for 58 portraits and Lowndes for 63. This set contains 70 portraits. Oudieuvre's suite was first published in 1738 without text and multiple times afterwards both by itself and to illustrate different works. This set is further expanded with two portraits by Jacques-Nicolas Tardieu and Paul Victor Mathey one illustration of an Egyptian obelisk after Jacob de Veert and two large folding plates depicting Saint Bartholomew's Day massacre and the assassination of Henry IV by Gaspar Bouttats. Maximilien de Béthune Duke de Sully 1560-1641 was one of the most powerful figures at the court of Henry IV serving as his personal counsellor superintendent of finances grand voyer and grand master of artillery. His memoires are a key source on Henry IV's reign covering the transition from the wars of religion towards royal stability under the Bourbons. 3 vols quarto 258 x 194 mm. Engraved frontispiece in vol. I 75 engraved plates 2 of which folding. Near-contemporary calf spine with raised bands floral and geometric gilt decoration in compartments red morocco labels covers bordered with gilt dentelle and floral rolls fleurons at corners board edges and turn-ins tooled in gilt marbled endpapers and edges green silk bookmarkers. Armorial bookplates of the Tollemache family; 20th-century bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst Lancashire druggist and chemist on front free endpaper verso of vol. I. All joints and spine ends of vol I repaired partial loss to spine ends of vols. II and III corners worn covers marked and with spots of stripping initial blank in vol. III partly detached damp stain to outer margin of title page in vol. I occasional foxing or small mark slight offsetting from plates short closed tear to both folding plates at fold otherwise generally clean. A very good set. Brunet V 588-9. hardcover
171089846Claude Prudhomme | Paris 1710 | 8.5 x 15.7 cm | 3 volumes reliés en 1
171089846Paris: Claude Prudhomme 1710. Fine. Claude Prudhomme Paris 1710 8.5 x 15.7 cm 3 volumes reliés en 1 First edition of this concise treatise on rural economy attributed to the Duke of Sully the famed minister of Henri IV born at Rosny and who bore the name of that estate.His well-known commitment to the development of agriculture has passed into national lore. However it cannot be excluded that another author sharing the same territorial designation may be responsible for the text.Contemporary full mottled fawn sheep spine with five raised bands decorated with gilt compartments and gilt tools gilt fillets Havana morocco lettering-piece gilt rolls to the headcaps gilt fillets to board edges red sprinkled edges.Some repairs to the binding. Manuscript ex-libris inscriptions Cousturier Prieur de Champsanglard Creuse and Denesmond prêtre on the title-page of the first volume.The booklet is followed as very often with this title by two short agronomic treatises which vary from one copy to another.In this copy:1. A new edition of the Instruction pour le jardin potager 1678 attributed to an Aristote jardinier de Puteauxobviously not his real namewho authored several small works on fruit trees and flowers Musset-Pathay 806.2. A summary of the Nouvelle instruction pour connoistre les bons fruits 1670 attributed sometimes to Jean Merlet sometimes to Claude Saint-Etienne. At the end is an interesting Catalogue des poires selon les mois de les manger from July to September. Cf. Musset-Pathay 1390. Manuscript ex-libris inscriptions Cousturier Prieur de Champsanglard Creuse and Denesmond prêtre. Claude Prudhomme hardcover
175644515London: Printed for A. Millar in the Strand; R. and J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall; and W. Shropshire in New-Bond-Street 1756. Fine. First edition in English extra-illustrated copy of this "instant classic" Carlile the autobiography of the minister and advisor to King Henry IV of France. Charlotte Lennox was born into a well-to-do Scottish family that fell upon hard times. Well educated and distinguished early for her poetic precocity - but left to fend for herself financially she turned to a career in writing. After publishing two novels THE LIFE OF HARRIOT STUART based heavily on her own experiences in the American colonies and voyage back to Britain; and THE FEMALE QUIXOTE for which she is best known today Lennox took up translation work in hopes of finding a more stable source of income. Among Lennox's most successful productions in her long publishing career this translation of the Duke of Sully's MEMOIRS also led to an offer of a royal pension for Lennox in gratitude for literary services performed. She turned it down in favor of her patron finding a government position for her husband instead. <br /> <br /> The Duke of Sully 1560-1641 was viewed by many in the Georgian period as an ideal Enlightenment-era statesman and his MEMOIRS has been read as a literary political treatise. It influence was broad including on the American Founding Fathers: it features in the 1783 list of books to be imported for the use of Congress compiled under the leadership of James Madison. <br /> <br /> This copy has been generously supplemented with nearly 200 engravings primarily of portraits and landscapes of the figures and places described. As a 17th-century text via an influential 18th-century translation in a characteristically deluxe 19th-century extra-illustrated binding it is a lovely hybrid artifact. Three quarto volumes 10'' x 7.75'' each. Nineteenth-century full maroon straight-grain morocco by Bayntun raised bands elaborately gilt-stamped spines large gilt cornerpieces and triple-gilt rules to boards. Gilt dentelles marbled endpapers all edges gilt. Extra illustrated with 193 additional plates: portraits landscapes dramatic scenes inter alia. Half titles in first two volumes. 4 540; 4 viii 555 1; viii 408 pages plus index. Only light rubbing to joints. Printed for A. Millar, in the Strand; R. and J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall; and W. Shropshire, in New-Bond-Street unknown
1778WRCAM47211Londres but actually Paris 1778. Eight volumes with frontispiece portrait in first volume. 12mo. Contemporary calf spines gilt. Spines very chipped and worn hinges cracked. Boards crudely repaired at some corners and edges. Bookplate of James Monroe in front of each volume. Some foxing and dampstaining but generally clean internally. A good solid set with an impeccable provenance. In two black half morocco boxes. James Monroe's copy of Sully's MÉMOIRES which is in fact a very free adaptation by "M.L.D.L.D.L." i.e. Pierre Mathurin de L'Ecluse des Loges. Jefferson and Madison both considered this book required reading for American statesmen. It was included in the list of books that Madison prepared for Congress in 1783 and was "usually included in Jefferson's lists of recommended reading" Sowerby. Jefferson owned a copy of this same edition one of several 18th-century reprints of a work first published in 1638 recounting the nation-building of a great French statesman. Jefferson's copy acquired in 1788 was present when his library was acquired by the Library of Congress in 1815. <br> <br> James Monroe and Thomas Jefferson who was fifteen years Monroe's senior enjoyed a lifelong friendship from the time Monroe began his law studies with Jefferson in 1780. Both were Francophiles and in that regard Monroe may well have surpassed his mentor. A United States minister to France from 1794 to 1796 Monroe championed the French in defiance of his mandate to promote neutrality. No doubt he embraced French history and culture with a similar though less dangerous zeal. This set of books was quite likely one of many works that Monroe acquired during his years in France 1794-97 and 1803. In fact Monroe began acquiring French books as early as 1784 when Jefferson sold him twenty-five duplicate French titles; the list preserved in the Jefferson Papers does not however include a copy of Sully. According to the catalogue of Monroe's library reconstructed in 1967 by Gordon W. Jones French books comprised nearly one- third of Monroe's library which according to Monroe's own estimate approached nearly 3000 volumes. Based on Monroe's own manuscript catalogue the library sold at auction in 1849 and a small group of books retained by his descendants Jones was able to identify a total of some 450 titles many in multiple volumes - enough to suggest that Monroe's estimate was not exaggerated. <br> <br> Only a tiny portion of Monroe's extensive library has been preserved intact and copies from the library rarely turn up on the market. As of 1967 the Monroe Memorial Library in Fredericksburg housed some twenty- eight titles in fifty volumes. These are known to have belonged to Monroe because they descended through the family; most according to Jones do not have Monroe's bookplate. Only two other books belonging to Monroe are located by Jones both in the Alderman Library at the University of Virginia. Doubtless other works are scattered throughout various other public and private collections but the general lack of a bookplate makes these nearly impossible to identify. <br> <br> All of which makes this 18th-century edition of a classic French historical text complete with Monroe's bookplate in all eight volumes a welcome artifact that exemplifies Monroe's library and evokes Thomas Jefferson's early influence on James Monroe as a book collector and recalls the future president's experience as a young diplomat in the service of an infant republic. <br> <br> Several books from Monroe's library have appeared recently at auction. His copy of Necker's DE L'ADMINISTRATION DES FINANCES DE LA FRANCE 1784 complete in three volumes with his bookplate sold for $18750 at Christie Dec. 3 2007 while a single volume of a seven-volume set of Linnaeus also with his bookplate sold for $12500 at Christie's on June 12 2008. In the December 2007 sale Jefferson's set of this same edition of Sully sold for $43000. Gordon W. Jones THE LIBRARY OF JAMES MONROE Charlottesville 1967 p.59 listing this copy of Sully as item 168 in Monroe's manuscript catalogue. SOWERBY JEFFERSON'S LIBRARY 199. ESTC T143312. hardcover books
