Nicolas LENGLET DU FRESNOY

First edition. Barbier I, 527.
Contemporary full sheep binding, decorated raised spine. Upper headcap missing and lower headcap worn. Edges rubbed with leather lacks. One corner slightly bumped.
La Catanoise was the wet nurse of Queen Joanna of Naples and mother of Robert de Cabanes (grand seneschal of Sicily), of humble origins she experienced an extraordinary social ascension in the kingdom of Naples, which she owed to her ambition and venality.

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New edition. The first edition appeared in 1744, and its chronology therefore stopped at the date of 1743; this latest edition continues the chronology until 1764; this is followed by tables of popes, writers, great men in the sciences and arts. Each page is surrounded by a double black frame.
Contemporary mottled calf binding. Spine with raised bands decorated with spider web tools. Brown morocco title-label and volume labels. Head slightly worn. Same for the tail of volume I. Upper joint of volume II split at head and tail.
The work is presented in the form of a chronology. The works of abbé Lenglet du Fresnoy are still considered today as treasures of erudition; he was...