HOW TO BE A MAN - WITH MUSIC AND BOOK CATALOGUES

Della Faille, Jean-Baptiste: L’idée parfaite du véritable héros, formée sur les maximes des anciens, et des modernes; ornée d’une infinité de belles curiositez, d’exemples de politique, de sentences, de secrets, de conseils, de stratagémes, & d’actions surprenants des grands heros [...] A Amsterdam, aux dépens d’Estienne Roger, marchand libraire chez qui lon trouve toute sorte de musique 1700 [1699] [1699].

Copy, belonging to a French royal genealogist, of this guide to being heroic, soldier-like and princelike. The text includes (Part II, 146-148) instruction of James I of England to his son Prince Henry. Of interest, besides the text, are the publishers’ ads.: 10 pages listing music books, and eight pages, other printed books.

Details

One volume, 16 cms. x 10.1 cms., duodecimo, three parts, pp. 32 [4], [2] (blank), 38 [4], [6] (blank); [3]-171 [4], [1] (blank); [3]-173 [1] + [18] pp. publisher’s ads. Each part ALSO has a plate with intaglio bust of Grand Duke Cosimo III of Tuscany. Title-page to part one in red and black. Light or medium browning, slight spotting, staining from leather to margins at beginning and end, bound in mottled calf, covers double-filletted in gilt, gilt stamp at centre with armorial of Bernard Chérin (1718-1785) (Olivier, 1212). Chérin’s cherub device at corners and to compartments of spine. Label of red morocco gilt, red mottled edges (binding rubbed, headcap loosening).

STCN 841144117