Lettres De Messieurs d'avaux et servien, ambassadeurs Pour le Roy de France en Allemagne, concernantes leurs differens & leurs responses de part & d'autre en l'Annee 1644
by D'AVAUX, Claude de Mesmes, Comte. SERVIEN, Abel
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About This Item
[s.i.]: [s.n., s.d.], 1650. 211, [5], 62pp, with blank leaf O4. Finely bound in eighteenth-century polished calf, spine lettered in gilt and decorated with blind-stamping. A trifle rubbed to extremities, joints creased, else a crisp copy. From Lord Minto's library, with his armorial case/shelf book label (with the motto "credunt quod vident") above the modern bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst) to FEP. A handsome copy of the correspondence of two French diplomats, Claude de Mesmes, comte d'Avaux (1595â1650) and Abel Servien, marquis de Sablé et de Boisdauphin (1593-1659), involved in negotiations at Munster which eventually led to the Peace of Westphalia, ending the Thirty Years' War, from the library of Scottish philosopher, politician and poet Sir Gilbert Elliot, 3rd baronet and Lord Minto (1722-1777). . 16mo in 8s.
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- Bookseller
- Antiquates Ltd (GB)
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- Title
- Lettres De Messieurs d'avaux et servien, ambassadeurs Pour le Roy de France en Allemagne, concernantes leurs differens & leurs responses de part & d'autre en l'Annee 1644
- Author
- D'AVAUX, Claude de Mesmes, Comte. SERVIEN, Abel
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- [s.n., s.d.]
- Place of Publication
- [s.i.]
- Date Published
- 1650
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- 16mo in 8s
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Concentrating on hand-press printing and early modern manuscripts, we pride ourselves on offering a varied selection of antiquarian works on a diverse range of subjects, leaning towards the interesting, the important, and the unusual.
We have a countryside bookshop in Wareham; we also regularly issue catalogues - do ask if you would like to be added to our mailing list - and frequently exhibit at regional and national book fairs in London, Bristol, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, and York.
We also offer a valuation service (for either insurance or probate purposes), as well as advice on library development.
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Wareham, Dorset
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- Bookplate
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- Gilt
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