Author: BEAULIEU De Sébastien-Joseph du CAMBOUT DE PONTCHÂTEAU (1624 - 1690 ) :
Title: La Vie de St Thomas Archevesque de Cantorbery et Martyr. Tirée des quatre auteurs contemporains qui l'ont écrite, & des historiens d'Angleterre qui en ont parlé, des lettres du Saint, du Pape Alexandre III, & de plusieurs grands Personages du même temps; & des annales du Cardinal Baronius.
Description: .: 10. Paris, chez Antoine Dezaillier, 1679, in-4°, title with engraved vignette + (38) nn pp + 455 pp + (12)nn pp (table de matières) + (1)(bl) , with engraved headpiece and initial on pp (3) , small printed errata-leaf pasted down on penultimate page, bound in contemporary full leather, raised gilt spine, corners a bit bumped and worn but still a good binding, small part of lower corner of title page missing, also of leaf 2 and 3 a stroke of paper of ca. 1 cm is missing at the lower margin (no loss of text). Still a good complete copy. With the manuscript ex-libris of '' Dames Religieuses de Berlaijmont'' (Brussels convent now in the heart of the European quarter). Although nowhere mentioned this is the second edition; the first was published by Le Petit in 1674. The work is dedicated to King Louis XIV. .

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