[SAVOIE]. CHAMPIER (Symphorien): Les grans croniques des // gestes et vertueux faictz des tresexcellens catholicques illustres et victorieux ducz // et princes des pays de Sauoye et piemont. Et tant en la saincte terre de Jherusalem // comme es lieux de Sirie Turquie Egipte Cypre Italie Suysse Daulphine et au=//tres plusieurs pays Ensemble les genealogies & antiquitez de Gaulle & des tres=//chrestiens magnanimes & tresredoubtez roys de France auecques aussi la genealogie // et origene des dessusdictz ducz et princes de Sauoye nouuellement imprimees a Pa=//ris pour Jehan de la garde. [Paris, March 10, 1515 (i. e. 1516, n. st.) according to the privilege printed on the verso of the title]. [On the colophon:] Acheuees Lan mil cinq cens et quinze par Simphorien Champier [...] Et imprimees a paris Lan mil cinq cens et seize le .xxviie iour de mars pour Jehan de la garde libraire. [Paris, 1516]. In-4° (185 x 270 mm), speckled basane, ornate ribbed spine (late 18th c. binding). 10] unnumbered ff. (one blank) + 132 numbered ff. in Roman numerals. Text on two columns in Gothic script. 36 woodcuts, including a large one with the Savoy coat of arms under the title, a small one with the coat of arms of France on the spine, the 34 others in the text, some full-page; five genealogical tables; ornate initials. From the libraries of A. Brölemann, with ex-libris. Brölemann, with ex-libris, and J. Richard, with ex-libris with drystamp in the center of the coat of arms of the figure engraved under the title, repeated on the first wood of the text (f. 1) and at the foot of f. 3. Title soiled, with small accidents; other leaves slightly foxed; wetness; ink stain on a few leaves; a few lines added by hand in the 16th c. at the end of the text (f. 131 v°); blank verso of last leaf (colophon) entirely covered with handwritten inscriptions from different periods; a few other small inscriptions and soiling; second genealogical table (originally folded) trimmed in its left-hand part. Bechtel C-149 (who gives a reproduction of the title page and points out that all Jehan de la garde's impressions are highly sought-after); Saffroy, II, 33718. [N. B. Saffroy gives the wrong year as 1517 n. st., as Easter in 1516 fell on March 23, so that the March 27, 1516 given on the work corresponds to 1516, new or old style].