1559 1ed John Froissart Chronicles Medieval Hundred Years’ War Chivalry Sauvage 4v

1559 1^ed John Froissart Chronicles Medieval Hundred Years’ War Chivalry Sauvage 4v

The ‘Chronicles’ of Jean Froissart have continually been perceived as an important work on medieval history for centuries since its inception in the 14^th-century. While some of the subjects covered are repetitive and insignificant, many topics are of utmost importance including famous battles, deaths of monarchs, and the Catholic Church Great Schism. According to Adams in the “Manual of Historical Literature,”

“Froissart might be called the great interviewer of the Middle Ages. He lived from 1337 to about 1410, and wrote chiefly of contemporaneous events. The ‘Chronicles’ are universally considered as the most vivid and faithful picture we have of events in the fourteenth century. As a picture of the most favorable side of chivalry, the work has no equal”

This 1559 first edition was translated and edited with commentary by Denis Sauvage, printed in an impressive vellum-bound folio!

Item number: #22092

Price: $2950

FROISSART, Jean

Le premier (-quart) volume de l’histoire et cronique

Lyon: par Ian de Tournes, 1559-60. First edition!

Details:

• Collation: 4 volumes in 2 tomes
  • 1 – [36], 462, [34]
    • Wanting title page
  • 2 – [12], 300
    • Wanting p. 43-44, last 12 pages and 6 endpapers
  • 3 – [12], 363, [5]
  • 4 – [12], 350, [6]
• References: USTC 1171; Adams, MHL 334-5;
• Language: French
• Binding: Vellum; secure
• Size: ~13.5in X 9.5in (34cm x 24cm)
• Exceedingly rare, valuable, and desirable with auction records and price comparisons at nearly $30,000

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