RICHELIEU Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal de :

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RICHELIEU Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal de :
Les principaux poincts de la foy catholique défendus contre lescrit adresse au roy par les ministres de Charenton : par monseigneur l'eminentissime cardinal duc de Richelieu. Bound in full old red morocco, boards framed with fleur-de-lys, in the center the arms of king Louis XIII, edges of boards darkened and rubbed, spine with 6 nerves decorated with fleur-de-lys and crowns, a title box, three gilt edges. Paris, Royal Printing House of the Louvre, 1642. Full page title engraving, illustrated by Claude Mellan. Prestigious reprint of this text published in 1617, for the death of Richelieu in 1642. Ex-libris of the Bibliotheca Lamoniana, library of the Lamoignon family, followed by that of the English collector of the beginning of the XIXth century: John Towneley. Fresh interior. One of the first texts of Richelieu, written in response to "La défense de la confession des églises réformées de France, en réponse à un sermon prononcé devant le roi par le père Arnoux".
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