LE MAIRE DE BELGES Jehan :

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LE MAIRE DE BELGES Jehan :
Illustrations of Gaul and singularities of Troy. In-octavo full green morocco, spine with 5 nerves, gold lettering, counter-plates with roulette, three gilt edges, binding signed Allô. Printed in Paris by François Regnault 1528. Revised and corrected edition. Five parts bound in one volume : Les illustrations de Gaule et singularité de Troie avec les deux épitres de Lamant Vert, Le second livre des illustrations de Gaule et des singularités de Troie, Le tiers livre des illustrations de Gaule intitulé de France orientale et occidentale, Le traité de la différence des schismes et des conciles de l'église ; et enfin L'épitre du roi à Hector de Troie. Printing in gothic letters, 2 columns of 53 lines. Letters. Title page of the whole decorated with woodcuts of framing, red rubricated, title pages of each part with engravings of framing, and sometimes the sign with the elephant of the printer. 67 woodcuts in text and one full page (part III). Some notes in margins, sometimes underlined text. Fresh interior. Under the cover of mythological fiction, Le Maire tries to prove that Germans and Gauls descend from the inhabitants of ancient Troy. As for the treatise on the difference between schisms and councils, it is a virulent plea defending Gallicanism following the pope's reversal against France.
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