DU TILLET (Jean) - Lot 456

DU TILLET (Jean) Recueil des Roys de France, leurs couronne et maison. Ensemble, le rang des grands de France. Paris, Mace, 1607 (Followed by) Recueil des Rangs des Grands de France. Slne, 1606. (Followed by) Chronique abbrégée des Rois de France. Paris, Ramier, 1606. 3 parts in one volume in-4: 4f., 456pp. - 414pp. - 388pp. 34f. (table); illustrated with 52 woodcut portraits of monarchs and coats of arms, heightened in color. Contemporary glazed fawn calf, spine ribbed, headband stretched, double cold fillet framing the boards. Recueil des Roys de France, leurs couronne et maison. Ensemble, le rang des grands de France. Paris, Jean du Carroy for Jamet and Pierre Mettayer, 1602. 4 parts in one volume, in-4, overlapping vellum (contemporary binding). Second edition of this famous text, "of the utmost importance for French royal symbolism", with the addition of the "Chronique abrégée des Rois de France" in tabular form. Brunet (II, 923).