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HENRI IV. - Collection of 22 pieces concerning Henri IV and his assassination, bound in an in-12 volume, olive-green morocco, triple gilt fillet, smooth spine decorated à la grotesque, red morocco title page, interior roulette, gilt edges (18th-century binding). Collection of 22 pieces concerning the assassination of King Henri IV, published between 1610 and 1623, and assembled by an 18th-century amateur who listed them on two handwritten leaves bound at the end. These include: La Chemise sanglante d'Henry le Grand (S.l.n.d.), La Rencontre de M. d'Espernon & de François Ravaillac (1615), L'Hermaphrodite de ce Temps (S.l.n.d.), Discours faict au Roy par le vray Matthault naguières retourné du Purgatoire & de Paradis (1616), Arrest de la Cour de Parlement contre le très-meschant parricide François Ravaillac (1610), Discours véritable sur la mort de François Ravaillac... Avec un ample récit des tourmens qu'on luy a fait endurer (1610), Les Imprécations et furies contre le parricide commis en la personne sacrée de Henry IIII (1610), or L'Assassinat du Roy ou Maximes du Vieil de la Montagne Vaticane & de ses assassins (1615). Very rare set. Most pieces have been trimmed very short, often with damage to pagination and leaf signatures. Slight wetness on some leaves. Some titles have not been preserved and a few pages are missing from two of the pieces in the collection. Parts list on request
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HENRI IV. - Collection of 22 pieces concerning Henri IV and his assassination, bound in an in-12 volume, olive-green morocco, triple gilt fillet, smooth spine decorated à la grotesque, red morocco title page, interior roulette, gilt edges (18th-century binding). Collection of 22 pieces concerning the assassination of King Henri IV, published between 1610 and 1623, and assembled by an 18th-century amateur who listed them on two handwritten leaves bound at the end. These include: La Chemise sanglante d'Henry le Grand (S.l.n.d.), La Rencontre de M. d'Espernon & de François Ravaillac (1615), L'Hermaphrodite de ce Temps (S.l.n.d.), Discours faict au Roy par le vray Matthault naguières retourné du Purgatoire & de Paradis (1616), Arrest de la Cour de Parlement contre le très-meschant parricide François Ravaillac (1610), Discours véritable sur la mort de François Ravaillac... Avec un ample récit des tourmens qu'on luy a fait endurer (1610), Les Imprécations et furies contre le parricide commis en la personne sacrée de Henry IIII (1610), or L'Assassinat du Roy ou Maximes du Vieil de la Montagne Vaticane & de ses assassins (1615). Very rare set. Most pieces have been trimmed very short, often with damage to pagination and leaf signatures. Slight wetness on some leaves. Some titles have not been preserved and a few pages are missing from two of the pieces in the collection. Parts list on request
