Cologne, Pierre du Marteau, 1668, pt. in-8vo, 1 p.l., 188 [ie.388]; 269; 1 p.l., 163; 1 p.l., 316. reliure en plein veau légèrement frottée, dos à nerfs richement orné à l’or, coiffes touchées avec petit manque de cuir.
12mo. pp. 1 p.l., 188 [ie.388]; 269; 1 p.l., 163; 1 p.l., 316. sphere device on titles. contemporary sprinkled calf, gilt backs Counterfeit Dutch (Elsevier) Editions, published the same year as the first. While Bassompierre's military exploits in the service of Henri IV earned him great honour and distinction, as a diplomatist, his career was a failure. This collection of accounts relates his successive unsucccessful diplomatic missions to Spain (1621; where he was responsible for signing the Treaty of Madrid), Switzerland (1625), and England (1626). cf. L. Janmart de Brouillant, Histoire de Pierre du Marteau, 1888; Brunet I 695. Cioranescu 10279-10281. Willems 1783. Rahir 2334.
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