Paris, Barbin & Aubouin, 1677. 8vo. Uniformly bound in two contemporary full calf bindings with five raised bands and gilt lettering and ornamentation to spine. Edges of boards gilt. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spines. Wear to extremities. Spine-ends chipped and some of gilting worn off. Internally nice and clean. (2), 407 pp. (2), 335, (5) pp.
Uncommon first edition of this compilation of letters and major polemical texts that marked the feud between don Juan José of Austria (1629-1679), illegitimate son of Philip IV of Spain, governor of the Spanish Netherlands (1656-1659) and the Austrian Jesuit Johann Eberhard Nithard (1607-1681). Not in Barbier.