OLHAGARAY (Pierre) - Lot 465

OLHAGARAY (Pierre) Histoire des Comptes [sic] de Foix, Béarn et Navarre by M. Pierre Olhagaray, historiographe du Roy. Paris,1629. In-4: 13f, 1fb, one folding table (Description du Comté de Foix), 772 pp, 13f. Minor scattered spotting, a few leaves slightly browned, margins a little short at head. 18th century tan granite calf, spine ribbed and ornamented, headband stretched, coat of arms in the inter-nerves, central gilt coat of arms, double gilt fillet framing the boards, bumping to one corner, speckled edges. A complete copy. There are 3 editions with the same text. The introductory pieces may or may not be present. There is no precise bibliography on the subject, except that of Saffroy. According to the copies we have on hand, the "Comptes de Foix, Paris, 1629" version exists with or without the 12 preliminary leaves (epistle, salutations to MM. des États de Béarn et de Foix, notices, genealogy). They are present in the one offered here (Brunet IV 179)(Barbe 689)(Cioranescu 51470-471)(Saffroy III 41108 to 41110)(Dufau de Maluquer II 210). Provenances: From the libraries of Louis Aubéry (son of the French ambassador to Holland, then lived in Prussia, Poland and Rome. He was the author of a treatise on the politics of Austria) with his arms gilded on the boards and spine, and Messire Bernard de Norbert (comte de Chenelette, lieutenant des mareschaux de France) with his printed bookplate.