Marie Stuart Reyne d'Ecosse
by [LEPESANT DE BOILGUILBERT (Pierre)]:
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
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LONDON, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Paris [L. Billaine] 1675. FIRST EDITION. 12mo, 142 x 84 mms., pp. [4], 5 - 312, in three parts, with separate title-page for each part, contemporary vellum (soiled); text block pulling away from binding at hinges, title-page (part one) with paper strip recto and verso obscuring "Reyne" in title, notes in pencil on recto of front free end-paper. A modest copy. This was the first book that Pierre Le Pesant de Boisguilbert (1646 - 1714) published; he was later to achieve distinction as an economist. His first important work on economics, Le Detail de la France, appeared in 1695. In the preface, he alludes to representations of Mary by George Buchanan, whose mendacities were published in 1571, and the Jesuit Nicolas Caussin, whose La Cour Sainte (1624) represents Mary as a persecuted innocent in contrast to the cold-hearted and heretical queen, Elizabeth. Having consulted fifteen or sixten authors, Pesant declares "si je cite Candenus [sic] plus souvent que les autres, c'est parce qu'estant Sujet d'Elizabeth, ce qu'il dit passer pour une verite incontestable." I assume the work to which he alludes is William Camden's Annales (1625).
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- John Price Antiquarian Books (GB)
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- Title
- Marie Stuart Reyne d'Ecosse
- Author
- [LEPESANT DE BOILGUILBERT (Pierre)]:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Paris [L. Billaine] 1675
- Keywords
- history Mary prose Scottish women
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- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- Recto
- The page on the right side of a book, with the term Verso used to describe the page on the left side.
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...