The Memoirs of the Duke of Sully, Prime Minister to Henry the Great...Translated from the French

by Charlotte Lenox by Maximilian de Bethune Sully, duc de

$800 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

A New edition. Frontispieces in vol. 1. 5 vols. 8vo. Bound in three-quarters red morocco with marbled paper boards, gilt borders and spine. Edgewear, but very good. Coquelin & Guillaumin II, 684 ff. Item #375380 Reprint of the standard English edition. Sully was renowned for his reform of 17th century French finance and for his promotion of agriculture. He opposed the theory of the mercantile school and

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