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JOINVILLE ( John ), Lord

Currency:EUR Category:Antiques / Books & Manuscripts Start Price:10.00 EUR Estimated At:100.00 - 150.00 EUR
JOINVILLE ( John ), Lord

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Auction Date:2012 Oct 20 @ 11:00 (UTC+1)
Location:38 Molesworth Street, Dublin, Dublin, ., Ireland
JOINVILLE ( John ), Lord. Memoirs of … written by himself ; containing a history of part of the life of Louis IX. King of France, surnamed Lord Louis, including an account of that king's expedition to Egypt in … 1248. To which are added, - the notes & dissertations of M. Du Cange … the dissertations of M. le Baron de la Bastie on the life of St Louis, M. l'Evesque de la Ravaliere and M. Falconet on the Assasins of Syria ; from the 'Memoires de l'Academie de Belles Lettres et Inscriptions de France'. The whole translated by Thomas Jones [Aberystwyth] At the Hafod Press, by James Henderson, 1807FIRST EDITION THUS, complete with 3 plates (1 double-page) and 3 maps (2 double-page), pages (8), 426 : vii, 328, with the half-titles, 2 vols, large 4to, bound in one, contemporary half red straight-grained morocco, gilt, gilt ruled and lettered spine, edges uncut (a few unopened) : the binding a little rubbed and worn but very strong and not unattractive, with the armorial bookplate of Richard Verschoyle.Joinville (c.1224-1317). This, his famous 'Histoire de saint-Louis', the second great crusade chronicle in French prose, provides a supreme account of the Seventh Crusade (1248-54). His sense of the personal, the concrete, and the human, played against the scope of the events and the nobility of the King continues to make it a book of major importance (Ency Brit). (2)FRENCH LITERATURE; NEAR EAST; SYRIA; CRUSADES; PALESTINE; MILITARY; ; ; ; ; ;