NANI, Giovanni Batista and "L.T."

Relation de la Conduite Presente de la Cour de France, adressée à un Cardinal à Rome, par un seigneur Romain, de la suite de son Eminence Monseigneur le Cardinal Flavio Chigi ...Leiden [= Brussels], Antoine du Val [= François Foppens], 1665. 12mo. Title-page with woodcut publisher's device, a woodcut headpiece and tailpiece and 1 decorative woodcut initial, all copied from Daniel Elzevier. Gold-tooled vellum (ca. 1800?), red morocco spine label.

(2), 106, (2 blank) pp. Rahir 3143; Willems 1362; STCN (3 copies).Two letters on late seventeenth-century French politics: "Relation de la conduite presente de la cour de France," signed "L. T.", Paris, 11 August 1664, and "Lettre d'un gentil-homme François à un Prelat Romain, sur la Relation Italienne de la conduite presente de la cour de France," signed "S. V. N. V.", Paris, 25 November 1664, the latter interpreted as Signor Vattista Nani Veneto, that is, Giovanni Batista Nani (1616-1678), historian and Venetian ambassadeur to France. The "L.T." who wrote the longer first letter has not been identified. The woodcut materials identify the printer as Foppens in Brussels, well known for his copies of the Elzeviers' publications, so one would suppose he copied the Daniel Elzevier edition with the same date and imprint, and that Elzevier's was the first edition. Curiously, however, Willems argues that in this one exceptional case Elzevier copied Foppens and that the present edition is therefore the first, even though its form and materials are copied from Elzevier.With the bookplate of Rob. De Billy. With the first two leaves partly detached, but still a good copy. Interesting comment on seventeenth-century French politics.

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