‎DU HAILLAN, BERNARD DE GIRARD.‎
‎De l'estat et succez des affaires de France. Oeuvre contenant les choses plus singuliers & plus remarquables, advenuës durant les regnes des Rois de France, depuis Pharamond premier Roy de France, Francons, ou Françoys, iusques au Roy Loys unziesme.‎

‎A Paris, à l'Olivier de l'Huillier, 1570. Printer's mark on title. (8), 165, (3) lvs. Small 8vo. Contemporary limp vellum, wrinkled, outer part of rear torn off. Hauser 1447; not in BMSTC (French); not in Adams; Brunet ii, 1611: " encore bon à consulter." First edition of this at the time much esteemed work, which went through many editions. 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 lvs 145-165 contain the 'Sommaire des comtes et ducs d'Aniou depuis Geoffroy Grisegonnelle iusques à Monseigneur Henry fils & frère de Rois de France, & Duc d'Anjou, de Bourbonnois & d'Auvergne' by the same author, with a separate title.The work is dedicated to the duc d'Anjou and the author came under the duc'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'. - With handwritten ex-libris "Bibliotheque de Genetiner". ‎

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