{"title":"Early","description":"\u003cp\u003eAnything made before 1714 lands here. We see less items comes through this section than the others. \u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"histoire-particuliere-du-siege-de-montauban-1624","title":"Histoire Particuliere du Siege de Montauban, 1624, dedicated to the Duc de Rohan","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA day-by-day journal of the 1621 siege of Montauban, written from inside the walls and printed comtemporarily in 1624, \u003cem\u003ethree years after the king's army gave up and went home. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis is currently the oldest book in the shop.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn August 1621 Louis XIII brought twenty-odd thousand men and thirty-eight guns to a Protestant town on the Tarn and sat down outside it for the better part of three months. Plague, failed assaults and the duc de Rohan's men on the supply roads did the rest, and in November the siege was lifted. This account was set down the year after by someone who had been inside, and it opens with a dedication to Rohan himself, the Huguenot commander.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is a partisan book and does not pretend otherwise.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe edition\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHistoire particuliere des plus memorables choses qui se sont passees au Siege de Montauban, et de l'acheminement d'iceluy, dressee en forme de journal. The imprint reads \"Iouxte la coppie imprimee a Leyden, par Godefroy Basson, M.DC.XXIV,\" which says the text follows Basson's Leiden edition; where this copy was printed, the page does not say. First published 1622, this is a 1624 reissue in a different setting,  running to 300 pages and ending at the printed FIN.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAuthorship is attributed to Hector Joly or Samuel de Bonencontre and has never been settled. Small octavo.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe copy\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book is expertly rebound in a twentieth-century French dark green half morocco, spine gilt with fleurons in compartments and lettered SIEGE DE MONTAUBAN 1624, combed marbled boards and endpapers. The paper is beautifully clean and fresh with only a few small foxing spots. Complete to page 300 with the final blank present. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe ticket of Librairie Clavreuil, 37 rue Saint-Andre-des-Arts, Paris, is on the front pastedown; the shop passed to Raymond Clavreuil in 1937, which dates both ticket and binding. A small ink initial on the last blank.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHand-made laid paper and hand-set type throughout: the pages are all original to the 1624 printing, not a later facsimile. Condition graded Sound.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat you receive\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book, with its annotation card: accession number, era, date, materials, condition, confidence level and wall text, on the same card stock we use in the shop. Ships boxed and insured.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/siege-of-montauban-1621-huguenot-journal\"\u003eRead the story: The Town That Would Not Open Its Gates.\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"In Memoriam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52875598594360,"sku":"IM-0049","price":965.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1012\/5715\/0776\/files\/IM-0049-03-title.jpg?v=1789377449"},{"product_id":"les-confessions-de-s-augustin-translated-by-arnauld-dandilly-1669","title":"Les Confessions de S. Augustin, Arnauld d'Andilly's translation, Paris, later seventeenth century","description":"\u003cp\u003eSt. Augustine's Confessions in French, in the translation Robert Arnauld d'Andilly made after retiring to Port-Royal des Champs, the abbey at the centre of the Jansenist argument. This is an original devotional book from the Paris press that served the abbey, sold with its faults described.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eD'Andilly's version came out in 1649 and stayed the standard French Confessions for generations. It is an adaptation as much as a translation, laid out with chapter titles, summaries and headings so it could be read in pieces. This copy carries the Avis au lecteur, the table of chapters and the full thirteen books.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe edition\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLes Confessions de S. Augustin, traduites en francois par Arnauld d'Andilly. Paris, Pierre Le Petit. The title page is lacking, but all hallmarks of the book indicate that the era of later 1600s is correct.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThough the title page is missing, it carries a hand-written replacement with provenance from two later owners: a nineteenth-century ink note on the flyleaf that lays out in detail the imprint and a life of the printer, and a pencil note repeating it. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe have found no record of a Le Petit printing in 1669; Le Petit issued the translation in 1659 and 1675, and this copy's make-up matches the 1675. Small duodecimo, text running past page 560, table before the text.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe copy\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe binding is a later full calf, probably eighteenth century, spine gilt in compartments with fleurons and lettered CONFESS DE S AUGUSTI, combed marbled pastedowns. Leather has been lost at both spine ends and all four corners, boards scuffed through, spine label gone. Text toned with foxing to the opening leaves. Printed bookplate of a Commandant Farges on the front pastedown.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCondition graded As found. Sold as a copy without its title leaf, priced accordingly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat you receive\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book, with its annotation card: accession number, era, date, materials, condition, confidence level and wall text. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/augustine-confessions-arnauld-dandilly-port-royal\"\u003eRead the story: A Collector's Note and a Missing Title Page.\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"In Memoriam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52875599544632,"sku":"IM-0050","price":275.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1012\/5715\/0776\/files\/IM-0050-07-livre-premier-detail.jpg?v=1789377402"},{"product_id":"suite-du-menagiana-tome-ii-amsterdam-1713","title":"Menagiana, Tomes II and III, Amsterdam, Pierre de Coup, 1713 and 1716","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwo volumes of the Menagiana, the collected table talk of the Paris scholar Gilles Menage, half of the four-volume Amsterdam edition printed by Pierre de Coup between 1713 and 1716.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSold together, in the matching calf they were bound in three hundred years ago.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMenage spoke beautifully, and after he died in 1692 his friends wrote down what they remembered him saying, and printed it. de Coup's Amsterdam edition ran to four volumes with an engraved frontispiece by Jacobus Schijnvoet: Menage in a medallion held aloft by Fame, Minerva pointing at it. Menage is usually named as the model for Vadius, the pedant in Moliere's Les Femmes savantes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe edition\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTome II: Suite du Menagiana, ou Bons Mots, Rencontres agreables, Pensees judicieuses et Observations curieuses de M. Menage, troisieme edition augmentee, Amsterdam, Pierre de Coup, 1713, with the Memoires pour servir a la vie de M. Menage in the preliminaries. Tome III: Menagiana ou les Bons Mots et Remarques critiques, Amsterdam, Pierre de Coup, 1716, complete to page 599, Fin du Tome III. Both titles printed in red and black with de Coup's monogram device; the Schijnvoet frontispiece in each. Duodecimo. Volumes I and IV are not present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe copies\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContemporary calf by one binder, spines gilt in compartments with fleurons, lettered MENAGIAN with the tome number. Tome II: headcap lost, leather loss at the lower front corner by the joint, boards rubbed, firm. Tome III: headcap and the top of the spine lost, title compartment worn nearly blank, leather loss at the upper front corner, joints starting. Paper toned, light foxing. Condition graded Fair for the pair.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat you receive\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBoth volumes, each with its own annotation card and accession number, IM-0051 and IM-0052. Ships boxed and insured.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"In Memoriam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52875599610168,"sku":"IM-0051","price":195.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1012\/5715\/0776\/files\/IM-0051-01-pair-spines.jpg?v=1789377334"}],"url":"https:\/\/inmemoriamantiques.com\/collections\/early.oembed","provider":"In Memoriam","version":"1.0","type":"link"}