[Berry]. CHENU (Jean). Recueil des antiquitez et privilèges de la ville de Bourges, et de plusieurs autres villes capitales du Royaume... A Paris, chez R. Foüet, 1621.

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[Berry]. CHENU (Jean). Recueil des antiquitez et privilèges de la ville de Bourges, et de plusieurs autres villes capitales du Royaume... A Paris, chez R. Foüet, 1621.
[Berry]. CHENU (Jean). Recueil des antiquitez et privilèges de la ville de Bourges, et de plusieurs autres villes capitales du Royaume... A Paris, chez R. Foüet, 1621. In-4, [4] f. (including an engraved portrait), 503 p., [7] f., contemporary ivory parchment, smooth spine, title in ink (light stains and minor blemishes to binding; flyleaf missing; first few ff. faded with worm tracery in margin; wetness at very beginning of vol. then in margin and finally on 2nd half of vol. not serious; lower white half of last f. replaced). First edition of this work, dedicated to Henry de Bourbon, Prince de Condé and Governor of Berry. This compendium of city privileges, based on collections of charters, mainly concerns Bourges, but also the cities of Tours, La Rochelle and, to a lesser extent, Paris, Amiens, Chaumont, Orléans, Arles, Aix, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Poitiers and Le Mans. Illustrated with a copper-engraved portrait of the author by Léonard Gaultier. (Brunet I, 1833). Amusing old bookplate repeated on the endpapers: "This book belongs to its master / who is neither a Capuchin nor a priest / if you want to know his name / his name is Louis Griffon".
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