BOUCHE (Honoré). La Chorographie ou Description de Provence - Lot 3

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BOUCHE (Honoré). La Chorographie ou Description de Provence - Lot 3
BOUCHE (Honoré). La Chorographie ou Description de Provence et l'histoire chronologique du même pays. Paris, chez Rollin fils, 1736. 2 volumes in-folio, (20 including the 2nd blank)-360 [including the last 2 blanks]-30-574 [i.e. pp. 361 to 808, 4 double-numbered pp. 809-810 to 815-816, pp. 817 to 938]-(9 including the last 3 blanks) + (10 including the 2nd and last blanks)-1073-(15 including the last blank)-36 pp., including an intermediate title printed in red and black on the date of the original; spine ribbed, cloisonné and fleuronné with brown and garnet title-pieces, filleted edges, inner gilt border; bindings a little worn, spines split, one restored (period binding). PARTLY ORIGINAL EDITION. It includes the leaves of the original edition (Aix, Charles David, 1664) but with renewed general titles and address labels pasted on the intermediate titles, and includes an enrichment of 2 series of "additions": 30 pp. to the "history" and "chrography" parts in vol. I, and 36 pp. to the "history" section in vol. II (not to be confused with the additions already included in the text of the original edition). ILLUSTRATION ENGRAVED ON COPPER: off-text title-frontispiece (addressed to the first edition), and around 70 compositions in the text, including 2 full-page ones, depicting monuments, coins, coats of arms, and a map of the islands of Lérins. With a woodcut portrait in the text. ONE OF THE FATHERS OF PROVENçAL HISTORIOGRAPHY, ABBE HONORE BOUCHE (1598-1671), was a priest and doctor of theology from Aix-en-Provence, who settled in Barrême in what is now the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department. A protégé of the scholar Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (who had himself worked on Provençal history, without publishing), he devoted much effort to writing the present Chorographie, in which he proposes a geographical description and above all a history of Provence, based on a critical reading of the sources and historiographers who had preceded him. He offered his manuscript to the States of Provence, who printed it at their own expense in 1664. He also left works on religious subjects. Provenance: Edward Taylor (armorial bookplate). - Provenance: collection of the Earls of Crawford and Balcarres, Alexander William and James Ludovic Lindsay (armorial bookplate stamp Bibliotheca Lindesiana).
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