Adrien de La Morliére - Les antiquitez

LA MORLIÉRE, Adrien de. Les antiquitez, histoires, et choses plus remarquables de la ville d'Amiens. Troisiesme édition dédiée au Roy. Paris: Chez Sébastien Cramoisy, 1642. Third edition. Full leather binding with gilt decoration and label to the spine. The armorial stamp of the Earl of Malmesbury is in gilt to both the front and rear board. The front board is pretty loose, just holding, and the rear board is completely detached - but still present! Chipping with a little loss to both the top and bottom edge of the spine. Internally, a good, wide margined and clean copy. This would be a very good condition copy - but the detached boards mean that we can only describe it as fair. A sound text block, binding in need of restoration Title with engraved printer's mark / vignette. The history of Amiens from ancient times to the 17th Century. Text in French. Collation: [14], 409, [8]. [6], 335, [22], (2), 361-441 pp. 360 x 230 mm (14¼ x 9 inches). Third and best edition, the most complete, containing the full edition of the Recueil des illustres maisons du Diocèse d'Amiens with its own title page dated 1642. Both works had appeared in less complete versions, respectively in 1621 and 1630. The second book bears the location after each family name of the arms which were not printed but are described in the margin Large printer's device on the 2 title pages. First title page in red and black. Half-title between each part of the first book. Adrian de la Morlière, canon of Amiens cathedral assembled throughout his life an incredible number of materials on the history of his city. The work proceeds in the form of articles and does not use the classic but summary form of the annals, but the articles have a chronological evolution, from the Romans to the contemporary era. One distinguishes a catalogue of bishops of Amiens, of Counts and governors or lieutenants of the city. The treatise on the Houses of Picardy contains precious information. Besides the historical elements, the author added at the end of each part numerous poems of his own composition. Although the emphasis is more essentially placed on the history of the city, one finds many paragraphs on the churches, the ramparts and the description of the city. "Although La Morlière's work is poorly written, it is however useful & necessary, & even quite rare" notes Lenglet-Dufresnoy. To today's reader, the work will appear above all disorderly in its first part, but full of teachings about the city. Apologies for the high shipping cost - this weighs approximately 5kg packed.

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