Lot n° 385
Estimation :
200 - 250
EUR
BRY DE LA CLERGERIE (Gilles). Histoire des pays et comté du - Lot 385
BRY DE LA CLERGERIE (Gilles). Histoire des pays et comté du Perche et duché d'Alençon. Où est traité des anciens seigneurs de Bellesme [...] Paris, Pierre Le-Mur, 1620.
In-4 of [9] ff. 382-[14]-[6]-78 pp. Tan calf, ornate ribbed spine, title page in red marble (18th c. binding). Corners lightly worn, a few spalls restored. Minor scattered spotting.
First edition.
"Bry, sieur de la Clergerie (Gilles), avocat au Parlement de Paris, was the son of François Bry, lieutenant of the Bailliage du Perche. He was born at Le Tertre, near Bellème, around 1560. G. Bry is known by the aforementioned works, which contain much useful research for the Hist. du Perche et du duché d'Alençon. It is claimed that this author borrowed the major part of his Histoire du Perche et du duché d'Alençon from a ms. composed by René Courtin, a lawyer in Nogent-le-Rotrou in the 16th c., a ms. which he had received." Frère.
A fine copy, complete with in fine additions, with handwritten ex-dono by R.P. Menestrier on the title. Ex-libris J.M. (Frère I, 159.)
A prospectus for the 1970 facsimile reprint is enclosed.
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