JOURNAL DE MONSIEUR LE CARDINAL DUC DE RICHELIEU, QUIL A FAICT DURANT LE GRAND ORAGE DE DA COURT EN L'ANNEE 1630 & 1631. .....

No Place Listed: No Publisher Listed, 1648. Fore-edge of covers folds in, as in a Yapp binding. Front pastedown stained perhaps with an old glue.. Title-page has been repaired. Bottom 1/2" of paper was missing and has been replaced with contemporary paper.There is no loss of printing as this area was blank.Text block is quite clean and crisp throughout. Text is in French. The title translated into English is "Journal of Monsieur the Cardinal Duke of Richelieu, which he wrote during the Great Storm of the Court in the year 1630 and 1631, taken from these memoires which he wrote in his own hand. With various other remarkable pieces which have arrived during his time". 256pp. Armand Jean duPlessis, first duke of Richelieu (1585-1642) was Chief Minister to King Louis XIII of France from 1624-1642). We find just a handful of libraries with this book in their inventory according to OCLC. Furthermore, we find no copies sold at auction in the past 30 years according to ABPC (now Biblio). Please see photos.. First Edition. Full Vellum. Light Cover Wear/No Dust Jacket. 5" x 3".