Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, 1976, BCE.  Hard cover, 322 pages including Bibliography and Index.  Very good; very light edge wear, binding sound.  Dust jacket age-toned; mark at upper front panel.  Prior owner’s name on FEP; remainder of interior clean and unmarked; black & white illustrations and photo plates.  ‘Catherine de’ Medici, a Florentine, dominated France for three decades, through and in spite of the kings who were her husband, her sons, her son-in-law.’ (from front flap)