‎DU HAILLAN, BERNARD DE GIRARD.‎
‎De l'estat et succez des affaires de France. Oeuvre depuis plusieurs précédentes éditions, enrichi et illustré de plusieurs belles recherches, contenant sommairement l'Histoire des Roys de France, & les choses plus remarquables par eux instituez pour l'ornement, grandeur et establissement de leur Royaume, & authorité. Ensemble une sommaire histoire des Seigneurs, Comtes & Ducs d'Anjou.‎

‎Paris, A l'Olivier de P. L'Huillier, 1580. Printer's mark on title. (16), 321, (25), 24 lvs. Small 8vo. 18th-century polished calf, spine richly gilt in compartments, gilt fillet, crowned monogram in the corners, all edges gilt, a very nice copy. Hauser 1447; not in BMSTC (French); Adams G-730. Improved edition of this at the time much esteemed work, which went through many editions. The first edition appeared in 1570. The last part, the Sommaire histoire with a separate title. Also listed under Girard. The work forms a condensed history of France upto the reign of Louis XI, deals with the authority of the Kings, forms of government, laws and legal system, administrative and religious structure of the Kingdom of France and enumerates the various responsabilities of the officers of France. The work is an important vade-mecum for the history and institutions of France upto and including the Renaissance.The work is dedicated to the duc d'Anjou and the author came under the duke's protection and became his secretary of finances; Charles IX and Henry III (to whom the third edition of 1580 was dedicated) appointed him to the position of historian in charge of assembling and editing the 'annales nationales'. - Small lower corner torn off from lvs 3 and 64 with loss of a few letters; the same with the last two leaves, but without loss. Small piece of upper margin of title cut off. ‎

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