[LEGENDRE (Louis)]. Vie du cardinal d'Amboise, premier minis - Lot 582

[LEGENDRE (Louis)]. Vie du cardinal d'Amboise, premier ministre de Louis XII, père du peuple, avec un parallèle des cardinaux célèbres qui ont gouverné des Estats. Amsterdam [Rouen], Jacques Le Sincère [Machuel ?], 1726. In-4, [5] ff. 564 pp. 3 engraved plates hors texte: frontispiece portrait of the author engraved by Scotin after Jouvenet, portrait of Cardinal d'Amboise and tomb of the Cardinal in Rouen Cathedral, intaglio engraved head vignette with portrait of King Louis XV as a child. Brown calf, spine ribbed and decorated, red title page (period binding). Covers and corners worn. Georges d'Amboise, known as the Cardinal d'Amboise, born in 1460 at the Château de Chaumont-sur-Loire, near Amboise, and died on May 25, 1510 in Lyon, cardinal and archbishop of Rouen from 1498, was the principal advisor to King Louis XII and a French patron of the arts. A rare copy in large paper. Ex-libris JM (Frère II, 195.)