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THOU (Jacques-Auguste) - Lot 118
THOU (Jacques-Auguste) Mémoires de la vie de Jacques-Auguste de Thou, conseiller d'Etat, et président à mortier du Parlement de Paris. Work mixed of prose and verse, with the translation of the preface which is at the front of his great History. First edition translated from Latin into French by Jacques-Georges Le Petit. Rotterdam, Leers, 1711. In-4: 14f. 276pp. illustrated with a portrait of the author. Corner stain at head of last few leaves. Contemporary brown calf, spine ribbed and decorated, red title-piece, small bump to foot of headband, gilt roulette on edges, minor defects, red edges. First edition of the offprint of De Thou's memoirs at the head of the Histoire universelle. This work is unusual in that it contains an account of the first ascent of the Pic du Midi (pages 60-61).
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