![Edict]. Henry IV of France](/pictures/thumb/236.jpg?v=1652576549)
? ? 1607.
Only known copy of an unrecorded edict, printed on vellum, abolishing the office of the Vice Chancellor and Keeper of the Privy Seal of Navarre, as ordered by Henry IV in April 1607, and approbated by Jean Pancheure, sieur of Lamberdière and secretary to the King. The.....
Caen: Jean Briard, 1678.
The only known copy of a compelling illustrated Caen almanac, published by the little-known printer Jean Briard. No other almanacs are known from this series, though Briard printed an unrelated almanac the year prior. Authorship of our almanac is vague: Hermitte solitaire could be the sobriquet.....
![Relation de la cour de Savoye [bound with] Portraict de Mademoiselle D. L. V.|. ANON and,...](/pictures/thumb/202.jpg?v=1643632889)
Fribourg and Paris: Pierre Metsker, 1667-1670.
I. [ANON] [Christine de France] RELATION | DE | La Cour de Savoye | OU | LES AMOURS | DE | MADAME ROYALE. | [Woodcut ornament of a squirrel] A PARIS. 1667.
Bound with:
II. [ANON] [DE LA VALLIÈRE, Louise] LE PORTRAICT.....
Paris: Jacques Barois, 1741.
[2711 lots, priced.] The auction catalogue of the diverse and well-balanced collection of Michel Peletier de Souzy [1640-1725], director-general of fortifications for Louis XIV. The collection was managed and expanded by de Souzy's son, Michel-Robert, until his own death in 1740. In those fifteen intervening years.....
Paris? 1578?
A request directed to Henri III of France to reduce the tax burden on the good subjects of Burgundy, arguing by virtue of case studies of suffering Burgundians that existing taxes and obligatory tributes are too large a strain on the tax base. The treshumble request is framed.....