[MONSTRELET] - Volvme second des Chroniqves d'Engverran de Monstrelet gentil-homme iadis demevrant a Cambray en Cambresis. -- Volvme troisiesme des Chroniqves [...]. A Paris, Chez Guillaume Chaudiere, 1572. 2 volumes in one folio (222 x 342 mm), calf, gilt fillet framing the boards, coat of arms in the center, spine ribbed and decorated, gilt edges (period binding). Volume II & III only (out of three) - [XVIII] + 201 + [I (blank)] ff.., -- IX] + [I (blank)] + 255 + [I (blank)] + [XI] + [I (blank)] ff. Regulated copy; printer's mark on titles; ornate bands and initials. From the library of a bibliophile from Autun, with bookplate "Ex Bibliotheca Caroli Albosii, E. Eduensis. Ex labore quies. 1574", THE EARLIEST KNOWN FRENCH EX-LIBRIS. Several accidents to the binding, including one to the head-cap; very small loss to the first two leaves; small rodent damage to the margins of the last 20 leaves; leaf c1 erroneously bound between leaves b1 & b2. EXEMPLAIRE AUX ARMES de Georges JOLY, baron de BLAISY (1610-1679), captioned "Mre George joly chevalier baron de Blaisy second président au Parlement de Bourgne", (O.H.R, 1952). "Cette édition est la plus belle que nous avons de ces chroniques", (Brunet, III, 1832); Tchemerzine, IV, 867; Walter Hamilton. French Book-Plates. London, George Bell, 1896; Poulet-Malassis, Les Ex-libris français depuis leur origine jusqu'à nos jours. Paris, Rouquette, 1875.