De Brantome (Pierre de Bourdeille) - Oeuvres - 1740

Oeuvres du seigneur De Brantome. Nouvelle edition, A La Haye, Aux dépens du libraire, 1740, 15 tomes, complete work. Firm and elegant coeval full leather bindings with gold titles and rich friezes on the spines, overall very well preserved. Marbled endpapers. Red edges and green silk bookmarks. Important and prestigious noble bookplate applied to the counter-panels that attests how these books came from the library of Count Guglielmo Ludolf (Istanbul 1818 - Naples 1908) . Son of Count Giuseppe Costantin, ambassador of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies at the Ottoman Gate, and Countess Tecla Weissenhof, he was an important diplomat of the nineteenth century and passionate bibliophile. Volume I: pp. (XVI) , 532, (IV) . Complete, with a plate on the frontispiece. Volume II: pp. (XII) , 448. Complete, with a plate on the frontispiece. Volume III: pp. (IV) , 453, (III) . Complete, with a plate on the frontispiece. Volume IV: pp. (XII) , 360, (IV) . Complete, with a plate on the frontispiece. Volume V: pp. (IV) , 331, (V) . Complete, with a plate on the frontispiece. Volume VI: pp. (VI) , 497, (VII) . Complete, with a plate on the frontispiece. Volume VII: pp. (IV) , 458, (IV) . Complete, with a plate on the frontispiece. Volume VIII: pp. (IV) , 340, (II) . Complete, with a plate on the frontispiece. Volume IX: pp. (IV) , 474, (IV) . Complete, with a plate on the frontispiece. Volume X: pp. (IV) , 369, (III) . Complete, with a plate on the frontispiece. Volume XI: pp. (IV) , 383, (I) . Complete, with a plate on the frontispiece. Volume XII: pp. (IV) , 368, (II) . Complete, with a plate on the frontispiece. Volume XIII: pp. (IV) , 280, (VI) . Complete, with a plate on the frontispiece. Volume XIV: pp. (IV) , 364. Complete, with a plate on the frontispiece. Volume XV: pp. (IV) , 364, (II) . Complete, with a plate on the frontispiece and 7 folded plates numbered from II to VIII. Sheets in near excellent condition, without any particular flaws. Only a small woodworm hole on the last sheets of volume XIII, which sometimes slightly touches the text (see photos) . The best and most complete edition of De Brantome's works, partly original and very difficult to find complete with all 15 tomes; it is on this edition that all subsequent ones will be based until the beginning of the nineteenth century. It contains for the first time historical notes of Le Duchat, Prosper Marchand and Lancelot. This is the first edition described by Brunet (Bookstore and Book lover's manual) . Pierre de Bourdeille, known as Brantôme (1540 – 1614) , was a French historian and biographer at the court of Henry III, of whom he left us remarkable memories of intrigues, duels, rivalries and even secret assassinations.