Histoire des amours de Henry IV : avec diverses lettres ecrites à ses maistresses, et autres pieces curieuses.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Conti, Louise-Marguerite de Lorraine, princesse de, 1574-1631, author.

Contributor:

Bellegarde, Roger de Saint-Lary et de Termes, duc de, 1562-1646, attributed name.

Foppens, François, -1684, printer.

Marilyn Kramer Weitzman Fund.

Standardized Title:

Amours du grand Alcandre

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Henry IV, King of France, 1553-1610.

Henry.

France--History--Henry IV, 1589-1610.

France.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

144, 46 pages ; 14 cm

Fingerprint:

see- t.M. e.s& l'Ge (3) 1664 (A)

Place of Publication:

A Leyde [that is, Brussels] : Chez Jean Sambyx [that is, François Foppens], 1664.

Contents:

Histoire des amours de Henry IV

Lettres du roy Henry IV : escrites à mesdames la duchesse de Beaufort & la marquies de Verneüil : extraites des originaux trouvez dans la cassette de madamoiselle d'Esloges apres sa mort

Recueil de quelques belles actions et paroles memorables du roy Henry le grand.

Notes:

Anonymous. Generally attributed to Louise-Marguerite de Lorraine, princesse de Conti; see STCV. Also attributed to Roger de Saint-Lary, duc de Bellegarde; see Gay.

Originally published in 1652 under title: Les amours du grand Alcandre. See Gay, I, column 171 and II, column 535.

Imprint is fictitious; actually printed by François Foppens in Brussels. See Rahir. "L'édition [de 1663] sort des presses de Foppens, qui l'a réimprimée textuellement en 1664 et en 1668."--Willems.

Signatures: A-H¹² (leaf H12 blank).

Woodcut title vignette (Elzevir device), initials and tail-pieces.

"Lettres du roy Henry IV" and "Recueil de quelques belles actions et paroles memorables du roy Henry le Grand" each has divisional half-title leaf; the latter has separate pagination. Signatures are continuous.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center copy has manuscript inscription ("Miconet[?]"), struck through, on front pastedown; manuscript note ("3th 12 var") on front pastedown; manuscript note concerning the identity of the author on front free endpaper; manuscript inscription ("A.P.M.") in pencil on front free endpaper.

Kislak Center copy acquired for the Penn Libraries in 2024 from Zoe Abrams with assistance from the Marilyn Kramer Weitzman Fund.

Kislak Center copy has bookseller's description of this copy laid in.

Cited in:

Gay, J. Bibliographie des ouvrages relatifs à l’amour, aux femmes, au mariage, et des livres facétieux pantagruéliques, scatologiques, satyriques, etc. (4. éd.), II, column 535 (note)

Rahir, E. Elzevier, 3121

STCV 12928439 (note)

Willems, A. Elzevier, 2000 (note)

OCLC:

4291624

Online:

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