Live auction - Lot 822
[France - England]
Advertissement, des catholiques Anglois aux françois catholiques, du danger où ils sont de perdre leur religion, & d'experimenter, comme en Angleterre, la cruauté des ministres, s'ils reçoivent à la couronne, un roy qui soit heretique [augm. ed].
[Netherlands], s.n., 1588
€ 200 / 300
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Lot description
8vo: 136 pp. (marg. dampstaining and soiling).
Later half cloth. Good copy.
Extr. rare edition of a defense of the Catholic (Ligue) views on the royal succession in France (against Henri IV). It is attributed to Louis d'Orléans (1543-1629), a Ligue lawyer and "Approué par les Docteurs de Louuain" (on title). Ref. Pettegree FB 40019 = NB 23182. - Cp. Cioranesco 16782 (1586 ed.). - Barbier I:351. - Not in Adams, Machiels (O-96 is 1586 ed.), BL London (has 1586 and 1587), BN Paris (has 1586/1587 and 1591), NUC. Prov. Tournai Jesuits (ownership entry on titlepage). - Old bibliographical note on front flyleaf.