Title: Fleur de la maison de Charlemaigne, Qui est la continuation des Antiquitez Françoises
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">8vo. f. [1] (blank), [16], pp. 263, [3], f. [1] (plate). Morocco-backed boards. Spine in calf, gilt, yellow edges, marbled boards. Head- and tailpieces. Initials. Périer's device on title page, variant form on leaf at end. Ex libris L. Froissart (Ludovic) inside front board. Manuscript inscription on title page ("Ex libris Recolletorum petracorae" = Recollets de Périgueux).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">The exposure of the forged polemic against the hereditary monarchy of France incorporated in François Hotman’s Francogallia (1586, see Bib# 4102784/Fr# 247 in this collection). The ‘ancient manuscript of undetermined authorship’ that Hotman professed to have been sent has never since surfaced.

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