Honoré BOUVET. Larbre des batailles. Nouvellement... Lot 17

[Honoré BOUVET]. Larbre des batailles. Nouvellement imprime a Paris. Small in-4, untrimmed, blue glazed calf, triple fillet, 4-nerved spine decorated with small irons in the 18th century style, interior roulette, gilt edges ( 19th century binding). Barbier, I-265 // Bechtel, 100/B-379 // Brunet, I-379 // Renouard, ICP, I-1505-32 // USTC, 55520. (108 f.) / A4, B-Q6, R-S4, T6 / 38 long lines, car. goth. / 122 x 186 mm. New edition of this work which is both a universal history of battles since Antiquity and a kind of treatise on the rights of war, on the rights and duties of people according to their condition: king, prince, baron, pilgrim, bourgeois, vassal, monk, serf, foreigner..., the rights of imprisonment, the rules of battles in closed fields... The author, long called Bonet or Bonour by bibliographers [...], was prior of Selonnet and a doctor of law (Bechtel). The first, undated edition was published in 1477, according to Van Praet and Brunet. The work was a great success, and was reprinted many times. This is the fifth edition in Gothic script. It features a large woodcut title depicting the siege of a city by a troop of soldiers under the king's command, and numerous historiated letters in the text. Some rubbing to the binding, leaves sometimes a little browned along the lateral margin, rare marginal stains not serious, small lack in the inner margin of leaf T5. Provenance: Jacques Richard (stamp on title and B1 leaf) and Henri de La Broise (bookplate, with no. 682).