‎SAUVAL, HENRI.‎
‎Galanteries des Rois de France, depuis le commencement de la monarchie. 3 parts. - [FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION]‎

‎Paris, Charles Moette, 1731. 8vo. Three parts bound in one very nice Cambridge-style mirror binding with four raised bands and richly gilt spine. Boards and edges of boards with blind-tooled ornamentation. Traces of small paper-label to upper compartment. Small worm-tract to lower outer corner of last 100 ff. not affecting text. A very nice and clean copy. (2), 399, (2), 159, 104, (6) pp. + 2 frontispieces and 5 plates. ‎

Reference : 60858

‎First illustrated edition of this highly popular work on the French Kings from Pharamond, King of the Franks, to Louis XIV.Not much is known about the author other than he was a French historian and magistrate who lived in the second half of the 17th Century. Barbier II, 515Brunet II, 1445‎