[Des Rues (François), 1575 - 1633] Antiquitez, Fondations et Sigularitez des plus célèbres Villes, Chasteaux, places remarquables, Eglises, forts, forteresses du Royaume de France... Revues, Corrigez... Par I. D. F. P. Paris, chez Jacques Bessin, 1611; in 12, title, XI,626 pp., 5 ff. table, old vellum, handwritten title on spine. François Des Rues was a writer and poet, historian and geographer of Norman origin, Receiver General of Finances in Soissons; he published this work in 1608. This is the second edition, published by Jacques de Fonteny three years later. (ex. slightly unbound). Ex libris of the French writer and historian Emmanuel RODOCANACHI, 1859-1934.