[LARREY (Isaac de)] L'Héritière de Guyenne,... - Lot 416 - Briscadieu

[LARREY (Isaac de)] L'Héritière de Guyenne, ou Histoire d'Eléonor, fille de Guillaume, dernier Duc de Guyenne, femme de Louis VII Roy de France, & en-suite de Henry II, Roy d'Angleterre. Divided into 3 parts. Rotterdam, Reinier Leers, 1691. In-8: 8f, 245pp, 11f (table). Handwritten bookplate Corbet. Contemporary brown calf, spine ribbed and ornamented, small leather tears, gilt roulette on edges, red speckled edges. A fine copy. The first medieval history of Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen of France. A rare historical work on the life and reign of Eleanor of Aquitaine. Eleanor of Aquitaine (1124-1204) was one of the wealthiest and most powerful women in Western Europe in the High Middle Ages, becoming Queen Consort of France and England (Barbier II 615).