P. Pithou - Annalium et historiae Francorum - 1594

Annals and history of the Franks from AD 708 to 1594. Contemporary writers, twelve in number, first published from the library of P. Pithoei. Now reprinted in Germany... Frankfurt: at the heirs of Andreas Wechel, Claudius Marnius, and Ioann. Aubrium, 1594. Pages (16), 572, (52); size 17 x 10 cm. Seventeenth-century full leather binding with rich gold tooling and a red Moroccan-tasselled title label on the spine. Slight foxing, but overall a fine sixteenth-century copy, in good condition. Manuscript ex-libris on the frontispiece, beside the publisher's woodcut mark. Second edition of the work, published six years after the first edition. The volume contains about twenty Carolingian chronicles and fragments by various medieval authors concerning the history of France, all collected and reconstructed by the French scholar Pierre Pithou (1539 - 1596).