[HISTORY - BIOGRAPHIES] - Lot 500

[HISTORY - BIOGRAPHIES] - GUYARD de BERVILLE: Histoire de Bertrand du Guesclin, comte de Longueville, connétable de France. Paris, Nyon jeune, 1807. 6 books in 2 volumes in-8. Contemporary fawn basane, ornate smooth spines, red titles and endpapers, headband bumped, gilt roulette on edges. - BAILLET (Adrien): Histoire des démêlez du pape Boniface VIII avec Philippe Le Bel roi de France. Paris, Barois, 1718. In-12. Old dampstains, paper bands reinforced on a few leaves (not collated). Contemporary fawn calf, spine ribbed, headband faded, title missing, other minor defects. - L'héritière de Guienne, ou histoire d'Éléonor, fille de Guillaume, dernier duc de Guyenne Rotterdam, Leers, 1692. In-12: 6f., 456pp. Spotting. Contemporary brown basane, spine ribbed and ornamented, headband frayed, small leather tears on the edges, corners dulled, red speckled edges. History of the life and reign of Eleanor of Aquitaine, one of the most powerful women in Western Europe in the High Middle Ages, who became queen consort of France and England. Set of 4 volumes.