RECUEIL de quelques discours politiques, escrits sur diverse - Lot 119

RECUEIL de quelques discours politiques, escrits sur diverses occurrences des affaires & guerres estrangères depuis 15 ans en ça. Saint-Gervais, Samuel Waudreman, 1633. In-4, fawn calf, double gilt fillet, ornate spine, red title page (Binding of the period). Collection of 12 speeches written between 1617 and 1632 on political and diplomatic issues: the extension of the French empire, the German empire and states, the troubles in Bohemia, the election of an emperor after the death of Emperor Mathias, the invasion of Valtellina, etc. Le XIe discours démontre qu'il est expedient au Roi [de France] pour le bien & seureté de son Estat d'estre fort & puissant sur mer. This second edition, which follows the original of 1632, was printed in Saint-Gervais, near Geneva. Copy of the Comtesse de Tencin, mother of d'Alembert and one of the great literary figures of the 18th century. Claudine-Alexandrine Guérin de Tencin (1682-1749) published several novels and ran a very important salon, frequented by Fontenelle, Marivaux, Montesquieu, Helvétius, Abbé Prévost and other political, philosophical and literary figures of the time. Engraved armorial bookplate of Louis-François de Monteynard (1713-1791), Secretary of State for War from 1771 to 1774. Slight marginal wetness on a few leaves, 2 browned quires, fold marks on the corners of many quires.