OLHAGARAY (Pierre) Histoire de Foix, Béarn... - Lot 464 - Briscadieu

OLHAGARAY (Pierre) Histoire de Foix, Béarn et Navarre, diligemment recueie, tant des precedens Historiens, que des Archives desdites maisons. En laquelle est exactement monstrée l'Origine, Accroissemens, Alliances, Généalogies, Droicts, & Successions d'icelles, iusques à Henry IIII. Roy de France & de Navarre, Seigneur Souverain de Bearn, & Comte de Foix, à present régnant. Paris, David Douceur,1609. In-4: 14f. (title, dedication, preface, to the reader, genealogy), 772pp, 1f. (pro lectori), 12f. ( table); a few initials, a folding printed table (description of the county of Foix), pagination 142-143 repeated. Paper a little browned as usual, brown stain in margins at head of pages 253 to 304. Contemporary glazed marbled fawn calf, ornate ribbed spine, red title-piece, triple cold fillet framing the boards, double gilt fillet on the edges, rubbing, dull corners, red edges. There are three versions of a single edition: 1/ Histoire de Foix... Paris, Douceur, 1609. - 2/ Histoire de Foix... Paris, 1609. - 3/ Histoire des Comptes (Sic) de Foix... Paris, 1629. According to the copies in our possession, the "Comptes de Foix, Paris, 1629" version exists with or without the preliminary leaves and, if we follow Saffroy, the "Paris, 1609" version also exists without them. Bibliographers, led by Saffroy, are confused and contradictory about this work. In the 1629 edition, the date is said to be a typo for 1609, but this is an error: the two versions dated 1609 are perfectly identical, and include in the last sentence of the title about Henry IV: "à present regnant". This remark has disappeared in the 1629 version, which confirms that it is later than 1610, and therefore not 1629. As the justification is the same on all editions, we are dealing with the same text for which there are 3 different titles, the 1629 being a late reissue with a new title. Finally, if we compare the two 1609 titles, they were printed at the same time by the same printer, Douceur having reserved X number of copies under his own name according to common practice (Brunet IV 179)(Barbe 3250)(Soulice 24)(Cioranescu 51470-471).