Pierre LOUVET DE BEAUVAIS
Abregé de l'histoire de Provence contenant plusieurs memoires qui ont êté inconnûs aux auteurs qui ont écrit l'histoire de ce païs
Chez Léonard Tetrode|à Aix [Aix-en-Provence] 1676|8.50 x 16.50 cm|2 volumes reliés
First edition of this important work by Pierre Louvet devoted to the history of Provence, published in Aix in 1676 in two volumes. It forms the first part of the three major works that Louvet was to devote to the province, followed by L’Histoire des troubles de Provence in 1679 and the Additions et illustrations sur les deux tomes de l’Histoire des troubles de Provence in 1680, the latter two both published in Aix by Charles David.
The present copy is illustrated with an armorial frontispiece and 27 engraved portraits. The iconographic make-up varies considerably between surviving copies: some contain only 22, 25, or 26 portraits, while others also include a portrait of the author. One of...
€2,600