It was reissued in this edition from Leiden in 1643, the second of 15 editions brought out by the Press. De La Sagesse. De La Sagesse Trois Livres. Par Pierre Charron, Parisien, Docteur es Droiets. Suivant la vraie copie de Bordeaux.
Red morocco binding, all edges gilt.
In 1594 he published a work in defence of Catholicism, Les Trois Verites , but the work illustrated here, De La Sagesse , reveals a remarkable departure from his earlier views and was attacked by the Jesuits. The device on the title page is the Minerva . Ex officina Elzeviriana 1630. The Belgii Confoederati Respublica illustrated here was published in Leiden in 1630. The engraved title page depicts the arms of the seven provinces of the Federation.