{"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","url":"https:\/\/inmemoriamantiques.com\/products\/histoire-particuliere-du-siege-de-montauban-1624","provider":"In Memoriam","version":"1.0","type":"link"}