PASQUIER ( Etienne )

Les recherches de la France … Reveuës & augmentées d'vn livre, & de plusieurs chapitres par la mesme autheur.

      With engraved portrait, pp (20), 776, 773(bis) - 1175, (1, blank), (83, index), (1, privilege), 4to, strongly bound in contemporary vellum : title-page lightly frayed in fore-edge (no loss), some light marginal pencil marks, light browning and spotting : a good-very good copy. Uncommon edition, penultimate life-time edition : book seven here first published. Pasquier (1529-1615), a learned French jurist, renowned for this particular work - the first book of which was first published in 1560, and the whole, posthumously, in 1621. It includes much miscellaneous information relating to the history of France, its literature, and the university of Paris, all told in a pleasant ingenuous style, without pedantry. He favours toleration and condemns religious wars, and is especially hostile to the claims of the Vatican to interfere in French affairs