LEGRAIN (Jean Baptiste LEGRIN or) - Lot 520

LEGRAIN (Jean Baptiste LEGRIN or) Décade contenant la vie et gestes de Henry Le Grand Roy de France et de Navarre III du nom... Rouen, Vve du Bosc, 1633. In-4: 10f., 1fb., 1040pp., 12f. (table); hors texte portrait of Henri IV. Old soft vellum, handwritten title on spine, small skin yoke at head cap. Second part only. This author's first dekad alone, published in 1614, contains "l'Histoire de Henri le Grand", the so-called vert-galant having installed our historian as advisor and maître des requêtes of the hôtel de Marie de Médicis. The second dekad contains "l'Histoire du Roi Louys XIII depuis l'an 1710, jusques à l'an 1717", the third dekad contains "l'Histoire de France jusqu'en 1740", which remains in manuscript. SULLY (Maximilien de Béthune): Mémoires de Maximilien de Béthune duc de Sully, principal ministre de Henry Le Grand. By M. L. D. L. D. L. [de L'Écluse des Loges, abbé]. London, se, 1747. 3 volumes in-4: 2f., XXXVI, 607pp. / 2f., X, 612pp. / 2f., VI, 617pp. Text only, without plates (an out-of-text portrait of Henri IV the Great). Modern vellum over binding or boards, handwritten title-pieces over vignettes on spine (Brunet V, 588-589).