IOANNIS DE BVSSIERES BELLIIOCENSIS E SOCIETATE IESV. HISTORIAE FRANCICAE. PARS QUARTA. A CAROLO NONO AD LUDOUICUM DECIMUMQUARTUM. (VOLUME FOUR ONLY)

Lvgdvni [Lyon]: Sumpt. Gvill Barbier , Ioan. Girin, & Franc. Comba, 1661. First Edition. Full Leather. Good binding. First Edition of Volume IV only of Jean de Bussieres' History of France. Covering the period from King Charles IX to King Louis XIV. De Bussieres was a French Jesuit of the seventeenth century. Title page device. Engraved frontispiece. Engraved headpieces, tailpieces, and initials. Text in Latin. Collates complete; [6], 603, [13] Red staining to the top edge of the final 100 pages and rear board. Dampstaining to the top corner of parts of the textblock, and to the top and fore edge. Spot of loss to the spine, and remnants of a number label. Spots of soiling to the rear board. Full vellum, with yapp edges, and a leather label on the spine. Good. Good binding.