News from France; or, A description of the library of Cardinal Mazarin, preceded by the Surrender of the library (now newly translated) / two tracts written by Gabriel Naudé.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Naudé, Gabriel, 1600-1653.

Contributor:

Richmond, Victoria, translator.

Dana, John Cotton, 1856-1929, translator.

Series:

Literature of libraries in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. VI.

Standardized Title:

Remise de la bibliothèque de Mgr le Cardinal Mazarin. English. 1907

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Naudé, Gabriel, 1600-1653.

Naudé, Gabriel.

Bibliothèque Mazarine.

Physical Description:

75 pages ; 18 cm.

Other Title:

A description of the library of Cardinal Mazarin.

The surrender of the library.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : A. C. McClurg & co., 1907.

Notes:

Added t.p. within ornamental border.

"An edition of two hundred and fifty copies in this form and one of twenty-five copies on large paper were printed at the Merrymount press, Boston, in May, 1907."

Biographical sketch, signed Ruth Shepard Granniss: p. [7]-38.

Translation of the author's [Remise de la bibliothèque de Mgr le Cardinal Mazarin]. [Paris, 1652] and his Advis à nosseigneurs de Parlement sur la vente de la bibliothèque de Mgr le Cardinal Mazarin. [Paris, 1652].

The surrender of the library of Cardinal Mazarin was translated by Miss Victoria Richmond and Mr. John Cotton Dana, from Histoire de la Bibliothèque Mazarine par Alfred Franklin. 2. éd. Paris, 1901. This is the first publication of an English translation. cf. Note, p. [40]

Local Notes:

Another copy: "Of this Large-Paper Edition twenty-five copies were printed at The Merrymount Press, Boston, in May, 1907."

OCLC:

3737520