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[PAIX de CAMBRAI]. Le traicte de la paix / faicte et accordée entre nostre sainct pere le Pape / tresbaulx / tresexcellens et trespuissans princes Francoys par la grace de Dieu Roy de France [...]. Paris, August 18, 1529. Small in-4 (177 x 131 mm) of [4] ff. Red morocco, gilt lace "au pélican" on the boards, small gilt iron "à la nef" in the spandrels, morocco lining decorated in the same way, double guard of paper with the tank, gilt edges on witnesses (Chambolle-Duru). VERY RARE EDITION of the peace of Cambrai or Seconde paix des dames. It is illustrated with a title decorated with a Renaissance frame and the royal arms, and 4 woodcuts. The peace was signed by Louise of Savoy, mother of François I and Marguerite of Austria, aunt of Charles V, on July 10, 1529. "France renounced all rights over Italy as well as over Flanders and paid 2 million gold ecus for the ransom of the sons of Francis I, in exchange for the renunciation of Charles V over Burgundy." (Bechtel) The copy includes this handwritten note from Baron Pichon for whom the copy was bound: "The copy of the treaty of Cambrai sold 400. FRF Ruggiéri in 1873 n°219 was from the known edition of Nicholas Basin in Paris. This one, which I believe to be from Lyon, bears the name of Francois 1er before that of Charles-Quint and is nowhere cited unless the large in-8 one (indicated by Brunet) is the same one, Ex. of Fernand Colomb bought in 1885." Precious copy of an extremely rare historical work, in the famous "pelican" binding executed by Chambolle-Duru for Baron Pichon, and having belonged to Ferdinand Columbus, son of Christopher Columbus. Ferdinand Columbus (1488-1539), son of the discoverer of the New World, accompanied his father on his fourth voyage to America between 1502 and 1504. After his death, he returned to Spain, then traveled throughout Europe and built up a library of over 15,000 books. It was entrusted to the library of the Cathedral of Saint Paul in Seville. Neglected, like so many others during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, it was inventoried in 1684: its contents had then diminished by 10,000 volumes to only about 5,000. Books of this provenance are extremely rare on the market. CORRECTION: Slight crack at the top of the upper jaw for less than 1 cm PROVENANCE: Ferdinand Colomb (according to Baron Pichon's note) Baron Pichon (n°1218) (note in his hand, bookplate) Charles van der Elst, president of the Royal Society of Belgian Bibliophiles (bookplate). Some marginal restorations. Moreau, Editions parisiennes, III, 1529, n°1931. Bechtel, Gothiques, T-104 (quotes this copy).
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