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9 volumes. Royal octavo. Pp. 428; 378; 399; 426; 414; 408; 395; 412; 530. Plus engraved frontispiece portrait of Richelieu, and folding engraved view, both to volume I; engraved frontispiece to volume III; 2 folding charts to volumes V and VI respectively; 3 engraved portraits to volume VII; large, folding engraved bird's-eye view of the Fort of S. Phillipe to volume IX. All 9 half-titles present. Extended errata and notes at the end of Volume IX. Hardcover, uniformly bound in half brick-red morocco and marbled boards, spines lettered and numbered in gilt, sides gilt ruled, edges nicely marbled and sprinkled, marbled endpapers, some rubbing to extremities, some spotting and browning as usual. A lovely set in a very good condition, excellent plates. ~ Second edition, revised, considerably corrected and augumented. Armand-Jean Duplessis [du Clessis], Cardinal, duc de Richelieu (1585-1642); Jean-Louis Giraud Soulavie (1752-1813).
Four volumes bound in six. Small octavo. With a total of 16 engraved or etched plates, some as frontispiece. Pp. Vol. I: lxxvi, 257; 40; 108, plus 6 plates; Vol. II: xxxviii, 456, plus 2 plates; Vol. III: cxxxvi, 326, plus 2 plates; Vol. IV: 336, plus 2 plates; Vol. V: clx, 332, plus 2 plates; Vol. VI: 398, ccxvi (extended chronology), plus 2 plates. Hardcover, uniformly bound in contemporary duo-tint boards, spines gilt, each spine with volume number within gilt shield and with black lettering-piece in gilt. Some superficial rubbing to boards, some endpapers browned, minor age related blemished here and there, persistent dampmark to top edge of one volume. Withal a lovely set in good condition. ~ Various editions. Vol. I: second edition, 1792; II: fourth edition, 1815; Vol. III-IV: second edition, 1806; Vol. V-VI: third edition, 1815. The charming plates were made by Antoine Cosme Giraud (etcher) and Vincent Marie Langlois (engraver), after originals by Jean Michel Moreau and Jean Baptiste Simonet. Jean-Paul Rabaut Saint-Étienne (1743-1793) was a leader of the French Protestants and a moderate French revolutionary. He was guillotined in December 1793. Jean Charles Dominique de Lacretelle (1766-1855) was historian and journalist. He continued Rabaut's work and completed most of it while in prison. Very rare in its completeness.