Claude FAUCHET
Fleur de la maison de Charlemagne qui est la continuation des Antiquitez Françoises : Contenant les faits de Pepin & ses successeurs, depuis l'an 751 jusques a l'an 840. de Iesus-Christ.
Paris, Ieremie Perier, 1601.
8vo (4 1/2 by 6 3/4")
Leather binding, spine with 6 compartments and gilt flower decorations.
[16], 263, [2] leaves.
First edition of "Antiquitez francoises" with the arms and the motto of Claude Fauchet woodcut.
Typographic mark of the printer with "Bellephoron" in the title and full page in fine.
Provenance: ex-libris of Count Iohan Sigmund von Preusing.
Text in French.
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Claude Fauchet (3 July 1530 – January 1602) was a sixteenth-century French historian, antiquary, and pioneering romance philologist.
Fauchet published the earliest printed work of literary history in a vernacular language in Europe, the Recueil de l'origine de la langue et poësie françoise (1581). He was a high-ranking official in the governments of Charles IX, Henri III, and Henri IV, serving as the president of the Cour des monnaies.



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