1560 HISTORY of FRANCE by Philippe de Commynes antique Reign of King Louis XI

COMMYNES, Philippe de

Chronicle and History... containing the events that occurred during the Reign of King Louis XI...

Paris: Iehan Ruelle; 1560.

[16], 464 lvs., woodcut printer's mark on the title page (with the motto: in pace ubertas).

Some marginal brown stains at few last leaves.

Manuscript ex-libris on the title page.

18th-century full calf binding, spine with raised bands,  richly gilt, inner dentelle, marbled endpapers.

-Cf. Brunet II, 192; cf. Bibl. Belg. C 174. "This edition is the last reprint, without any changes, of the first edition of Commines' work, as published by Jean de Selve."
Rare, not held by the BNF, only 3 copies in USTC-


Size 3 by 4 3/4"

Text in French
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Philippe de Commines (also Commynes or Comines; Latin: Philippus Cominaeus; 1447 –  1511) was a writer and diplomat in the courts of Burgundy and France.
He has been called "the first truly modern writer" (Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve) and "the first critical and philosophical historian since classical times" (Oxford Companion to English Literature).
Neither a chronicler nor a historian in the usual sense of the word, his analyses of the contemporary political scene are what made him virtually unique in his own time.
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