Louis XIV of France - Christian V of Denmark - Charles XI of Sweden - Simon BENARD ( printer - publisher ) :
Reference : 46415
Paris, Chez Simon Benard, ruë Saint-Jacques, devant le Collège de Clermont, 1679, in-4°, 23 cm, 28 pp, title with large copper engraved vignette , with the engraved Royal arms on pp. 21 & 25. Bound in supple vellum. Very fine copy. The only provenance indication is a small manuscript name at the bottem of page (3) (illegable). This is an original printed copy of the peace treaty concluded at Fontainebleau between the Schwedish Empire and Denmark-Norway to end the Scanian War. This bloody war with e.g. battles at Halmstad and Lund started in May 1676. The treaty consists of 16 articles. The text is printed in French and at the opposite page in Latin. At the end is printed a separate article concerning the Duke of Schleswig Holstein Gottorp. Very fine copy.