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<dl><dd>First published 1605</dd>
<dd>"Histoire de la maison de Bovrbon, contenant antre autres choses memorables, la vie &amp; les gestes signalés de Monseigneur Charles dernier Duc de Bourõnois &amp; d'Auvergne ... ecrite par son secretaire Marillac"--Leaves 227v-294v</dd>
<dd>"Discovrs, sur l'interpretation des Eloges, Devises, Emblêmes, &amp; Inscriptions de l'Arc Trionfal erigé à l'antrée du Roy an sa ville de Movlins le 26. Septambre 1595"--Leaves 383r-396r</dd>
<dd>"Examen des almanachz, predictions, presages et divinations"--Leaves 396v-431v. "Des philtres, brevvages, charmes, sortileges, anneavs magiqves, et avtres fascinations diaboliqves an amovr"--Leaves 433v-444v</dd>
<dd>"Des peintvres convenables avs basiliqves et palais dv roy, et memes a sa Gallerie du Louvre"--Leaves 446r-453v</dd>
<dd>Engraved port. of Laval, leaf [13]v, 1st sequence. Coat of arms on facing page. Full-page port. of Henri IV, signed by Thomas de Leu, 450v. Full-page representation of the regalia of France, [454]r, also signed by de Leu. Head- and tail-pieces. Grotesque initials</dd>
<dd>Signatures: ã e i õ A-4R 4S(-4S4) chi 2chi² 4S 4T-6F (1st 3 leaves of chi signed 4S4-4S6; 2chi1-2 signed 4S7-4S8)</dd>
<dd>Binding: old mottled calfskin (repairs). Tooled in gilt along margins of boards with double fillets, and on spine. Spine label with title &amp; author in gilt. Page edges sprinkled red and black</dd>
<dd>Signed in pencil on front pastedown by E.K. Waterhouse</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Bourbon, House of; Professions; Ceremonial entries; Divination; Painting</div>
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<dl><dd>Laval, Antoine de, 1550-1631</dd>
<dd>Leu, Thomas de, 1560-1612</dd></dl></div>
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