Author: [Gendre, Louis le]
Title: Rare literature 1700 | Essai de l'histoire du regne de Louis le Grand, jusques a la Paix generale 1697, Cologne (Keulen [= Amsterdam, Nederland?]), Pierre Marteau, 1700, (6)+390 pp.
Description: 12°, Full leather binding (spine damaged). B1069Book in reasonable good condition, some wear due to use. On the flyleaf a handwritten old inscription a mademoiselle xxxxx (name scratched out). Pierre Marteau (French for Peter Hammer) was the imprint of a supposed publishing house. Allegedly located in Cologne from the 17th century onward, contemporaries were well-aware that such a publishing house never actually existed. Instead, the imprint was a fiction under which publishers and printers — in the Netherlands, France and Germany — evaded the open identification with books they published.

Keywords: France|French|History