‎Résumé de l’histoire de France jusqu’à nos jours suivi de Principes politiques applicables à l’Histoire; et d’un coup d’oeil sur l’histoire de la civilisation. 8e édition, revue.‎

‎ Paris, Lecointe et Durey 1826, 140x90mm, 348pages, cartonnage. Papier marbré de l’époque, étiquette de titre au dos. ‎

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‎Jules Grandjouan.‎

‎Bibliothèque municipale de Nantes et Éd. Memo, 1998. In-4 broché (30 x 21,5 cm), 109 pages, richement illustré en couleurs.- Publ. à l'occasion de l'exposition "Jules Grandjouan, 1875-1968", Bibliothèque municipale de Nantes, 16 mai-26 septembre 1998.- Jules Grandjouan (1875-1968), est un dessinateur, peintre, affichiste, syndicaliste révolutionnaire et anarchiste libertaire français : il dessine pour Le Libertaire, La Voix du Peuple, Les Temps nouveaux, La Guerre sociale, La Bataille syndicaliste, nombreuses contributions à L'Assiette au beurre. Très bone état.‎

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‎LES SUISSES AU SERVICE DE LA FRANCE DE LOUIS XI A LA LEGION ETRANGERE‎

‎ALBIN MICHEL. 1988. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. légèrement pliée, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 372 pages - quelques planches photos noir et blanc - annotation à l'encre sur la page de garde. . . . Classification Dewey : 944-Histoire de France varia‎

‎ Classification Dewey : 944-Histoire de France varia‎

‎De la demonomanie des sorciers. - [THE MOST IMPORTANT BOOK ON WITCHCRAFT OF THE ERA]‎

‎Paris, J. du Puys, 1580. 4to. Contemporary full vellum wih contemporary handwritten title to spine. Binding somewhat warped, but unrestored and tight. A (mostly very faint) damp stain to upper blak margin of some leaves (not affecting text), but otherwise internally very nice clean and fresh. Old owner's name to title-page (Dufault) and old acquisition note to front free end-paper. Woodcut title-vignette, woodcut headpieces, woodcut end-vignette, and a few woodcut initials. A large copy with good margins. (14), 252 (recte: 256) ff.‎

‎Scarce first edition of Bodin's seminal ""Demon-Mania"", the most important book on witchcraft of the era. The work profoundly influenced the position on witchcraft of the following half century and directly influenced the course of witch trials of this period. The work is furthermore of fundamental importance to the understanding of Bodin's tripartite world picture and constitutes an invaluable supplement to his ""Six livres de la république"".""Jean Bodin's ""On the Demon-Mania of Witches"" (De la démonomanie des sorciers) appeared in 1580 and rapidly became a major publishing success. It underwent at least twenty-three editions and was translated from its original French into German, Italian and Latin. It was surely the most published work of the era on the subject of demons and witches. Because of its wide distribution, it has been considered by generations of historians to have been an extremely influential book, responsible in itself for large-scale prosecutions of witches in the four or five decades following its appearance."" (Pearl, p. 9).The present first edition constitutes not only the original version of the work, but also the model for all French editions that followed (as well as the later translations) - as many as 11 between 1581 and 1616. Bodin edited an edition in 1587, which contained some additions"" that edition is considered very flawed, however, and no subsequent editions were based upon it. Jean Bodin (1529/30 - 1596), ""one of the towering figures in the history of French thought"" (Scott), was a lawyer, economist, natural philosopher, historian, and one of the major political theorists of the sixteenth century. His main work, the ""Six livres de la république"" is one of the most important works of modern political thought. Here Bodin gave the first systematic statement of sovereignty and coined the term ""political science"". With his theory of the State and statement of Sovereignty, he fundamentally changed the history of political thought in the West. The ""Six livres de la république"" is Bodin's most famous and frequently read work. Due to the seemingly ""supernatural"" contents of the ""Démonomanie"", scholars have had difficulties recognizing the Bodin of the ""Six livres"" in this work, which, within its domain, was just as influential. There has been, however, increasing recognition of the political contents of the ""Démonomanie"", and a tendency towards reconciliation of the great works by this towering figure of early modern French thought. First of all, the work is written with the same impressive thoroughness and style as Bodin's other works. Second, although based upon a concrete sorcery case, the ""Démonomanie"" is of the utmost importance to the understanding of Bodin's tripartite world picture and his attempts at maintaining a clear line of separation between the world of nature and the supernatural. His monumental conception of ""Theatrum Naturae"" is just as dominant as a thematical background in his ""Démonomanie"" as it is in his ""Six livres"" and there ought to be no doubt about the fact that the basic features of his system of thought are dominant in the present work, which due to its concrete matter of investigation is all the more interesting. In fact, the ""Démonomanie"" is now considered an invaluable source for the general thought of the great political thinker. With its two-fold turn of focus on social problems and questions of natural-philosophical and theological character, the ""Démonomanie"", in accordance with Bodin's scientific plan of life, marks the transition from ""human sciences"" to ""the science of natural and divine things"". ""Contrary to the judgment of the Enlightenment thinkers, this midway-position does not reduce its value in the Bodin corpus"" on the contrary: Precisely this work is suitable for clarifying and illustrating the unity of his works."" (Own translation from the German. Lange, p. 162). Concerning himself with witchcraft and demonology, it is in this work that we find an emphasized statement of Bodin's thoughts on women, on punishing and sentencing, and on the general threats of state and society. Having experienced severe criticism of his earlier works, Bodin's critics became more serious and dangerous with regard to his ""Démonimanie"". In his letter of dedication (December 20, 1579) to Christophle de Thou, the first president of the Parlement of Paris, Bodin explained his motives for writing the work. ""First, he hoped to denounce the mania, the spiritual errors, and distraction, as well as the ""fury"" that sorcerers possess as they ""chase after the devil."" He wrote this treaty with two purposes in mind: on the one hand, ""to use it as a warning to all who will see him [the devil],"" and on the other hand, ""to alert readers that there is no crime that could be more atrocious or deserve more serious punishment."" Bodin wished to speak out against those who ""try by all means to rescue the sorcerers through printed books."" He reminded all that ""Satan has men in his grasp who write, publish, and speak claiming that nothing that is said about sorcerers is true."" It was essential to provide the tools to magistrates and judges, who were confronted by the accused sorcerers, in order to face this formidable problem. The work was bold and perilous for its author. Many wondered if Bodin, so curious about this topic, such an expert, so convinced of the devil's existence, may not himself have been involved with witchcraft. These suspicions alarmed the authorities, and on June 3, 1587, the general prosecutor to the Parlement of Paris ordered the general lieutenant of the baillage of Laon to proceed with a search of Bodin's home, on suspicion of witchcraft. This inspection brought no results due to the intervention of eight prominent citizens and two priests who registered their support of Bodin."" (SEP).""The conclusions of the proceedings against a witch, to which I was summoned on the last day of April, 1578, gave me occasion to take up my pen in order to throw some light on the subject of witches, which seems marvelously strange to everyone and unbelievable to many... And because there were some who found the case strange and almost unbelievable, I decided to write this treatise which I have entitled ""The Demon-Mania of Witches"", on account of the madness which makes them chase after devils: to serve as a warning to all those who read it, in order to make it clearly known that there are no crimes which are nearly as vile as this one, or which deserve more serious penealties. Also partly to respond to those who in printed books try to save witches by every means, so that it seems Satan has inspired them and drawn them to his line in order to publish these fine books."" (Bodin's Preface).A feature which clearly distinguishes Bodin's theories on witchcraft from late medieval and early Renaissance demonology is his struggle against skepticism, and the gender strategies that he deploys in the present work to thwart Skeptics, constitute a central feature of his modern demonology - a demonology that came to be dominating for more than half a century. The ""Démonomanie"" is a work designed to update a vast corpus concerned with the identification and punishment of witches. It provides us quite clearly with Bodin's thoughts on divinity, punishment, practice of law, and not least on women - women in general and women in society. ""[W]omen generally serve as means to an end in Bodin's thought. The wife's natural inferiority to the husband provides an analogy for a nonreciprocal relation of command and obedience that he establishes between the sovereign and his subjects in ""De la république"". In ""De la démonomanie"", Bodin's portrayal of women as the possessors of unsavory secrets and his characterization of the confessions of witches as fragments of a grandly devilish design create the need for hermeneutical expertise - expertise that he claimed to have. In using women to ""think with"", the author of ""De la démonomanie"" had much in common with his opponent, the Lutharen physician Johann Weyer, who protested against the witch trials in ""De praestigiis daemonum"" (1563)."" (Wilkin p. 53).An important part of Bodin's defence of the existence of witchcraft lies in the latter part of the present work, namely the pages 218-252, which constitute the famous refutation of the opinions of Johann Weyer (""Refutation des opinions de Jean Wier""). In his ""De praestigiis daemonum"" from 1563, Weyer had argued that that which we call witchcraft are actually manifestations caused by mental illness of the women in question. It is interesting to see how much Bodin actually drew on Weyer, while at the same time attacking him on both scholarly and legal grounds. As the thorough and classically bred scholar that he was, he cited both classical, Arab, and Christian authorities on witchcraft against Weyer. He arrays the authority of all philosophers, prophets, theologians, lawgivers, jurists, rulers, etc. Ultimately, Bodin here became the first to challenge Weyer's denial of the right to judge and punish the mentally ill, making the work of foundational importance to the following development of legal theory specifically targeted on the punishment of insane men and women. ""As a major Renaissance scholar, Bodin based his work on an extensive and varied group of sources. He depended heavily on the Old Testament, classical and patristic authorities and a large number of medieval scholastic works. He was immersed in the late medieval legal and canon law traditions. He also cited a large number of recent and contemporary texts like the ""Malleus meleficarum"", as well as accounts told by friends and acquaintances. Interestingly, while Bodin condemned the work of Johann Weyer, he mined this book for anecdotes and accounts when they could be useful."" (Pearl).The refutation of Weyer shows Bodin as a formidable controversialist. The reason why the ""Démonomanie"" is published two years after the trial of Jeanne Harvillier, which is constitutes the concrete basis of the work, is that Bodin needed time to carefully prepare the most effective resonse to Weyer's works and attach it to his own. Bodin seeks total demolishment of his opponent - and, as time will tell, he succeeds. Despite some modern disciples, Weyer's position was largely traditional. His aim is not to deny the existence of Satan, nor of satanic practitioners, but rather to contend that those suspected of witchcraft are delusional and victims of mental illness. ""Weyer's characterization of women replicated the views of the ""Malleus Maleficarum"" (1487), or ""witches hammer"", one of the first and certainly the most influential manual for identifying and prosecuting witches... Weyer draws from the same sources as Kramer to argue that women cannot be held accountable for the crimes for which they stand accused and to which they often confess... Vying with the author of the ""Malleus"", weyer inscribes in etymology the correspondence between the soft female body and her persuasive mind... Weyer's portrayal of women diverges from that of Kramer only in his assessment of the witch's responsibility."" (Wilkin, pp. 13-14).""The essentially melancholic imagination of women, he argues, makes them incapable of the sense perception to which he assigned pride of place in the search for truth. The madness with which Weyer diagnosed witches thus masked the contradiction that vitiated his plea. Identifying the susceptibility to demonic illusion as a feminine trait was to compartmentalize it, to limit implicitly the damage that the Devil could inflict elsewhere - for instance, on the perception of learned physicians. Those who refuted ""De praestigiis daemonum"" rejected the hermeneutical advantage that Weyer claimed for himself. To the gender strategy by which he claimed his advantage, however, they did not object. Weyer's vociferous adversary, Jean Bodin, decried the physician's medical diagnosis of witches"" nevertheless, he called upon woman to embody his opposing hermeneutics. The phenomenon that Clark has felicitously termed ""thinking with demons"" was thus, I argue, inseparable from another thought process: ""Thinking with women""."" (Wilkin, pp. 9-10).The ""Démonomanie"" also constitutes a seminal exercise in jurisprudence, which came to set the standard for following decades. Bodin's aim was not only to make sure that witches were judged and punished, he also aimed at fair trial rules according to principles of law developed over centuries in the secular and ecclesiastical courts. Also in this way, the work differs profoundly from other works on demonology and witchcraft and shows us the author as a profound political and legal thinker, whose aim was to alter society for the better. Because this interesting work places itself amidst the divine and the earthly, between the supernatural and the natural, we find in it a wealth of themes that go beyond the actual witch trial with which Bodin begins his work. It is also for these reasons that the work provides us with an even more thorough knowledge of the foundational thoughts of the great legal and political thinker that is its author. See: Rebecca May Wilkin: Women, Imagination and the Search for Truth in Early Modern France, 2008.Jean Bodin: On the Demon-Mania of Witches. Translated by Randy A. Scott with an Introduction by Jonathan L. Pearl, 1995. Ursula Lange: Untersuchungen zu Bodins Demonomanie, 1970.‎

‎RECHERCHES HISTORIQUES SUR L'ANJOU ET SES MONUMENTS : ANGERS ET LE BAS-ANJOU ‎

‎ 1821 2 volumes, reliure demi-maroquin vert foncé petit grand in-octavo (binding half morocco in-octavo) (14 x 21,5 cm), Reliure d'Epoque Signée : COCHEU, Relieur à Tours, dos à nerfs (spine with raised band), décoration or (gilt decoration) à filets or (gilt lines) et mates (gilt and matt lines), entre-nerfs à fers spéciaux "Rinceaux" dans un encadrement à double filets or, titre et tomaison frappés or (gilt title and volume numbering) avec filet or, filet "or" en place des nerfs et en tête et en pied (gilt lines on the place of raised bands and top and at the foot of spine), date or en pied, papier marbré aux plats (marbled paper on the cover), marque-page en tissu (bookmark in tissue), tête dorée - gouttière long papier et tranche de queue non rognées (gilt top edge - fore-edge with great paper and edge of bottom no smooth), orné d'un frontispice dessiné par Bodin et gravé à l'aquatinte par C. Normand + 2 gravures hors-texte en noir in-fine dessinées par Bodin et lithographiées par Villain pour le Tome I et orné d'un frontispice dessiné par David et gravé à l'aquateinte par Normand Fils + 3 gravures host-texte en noir in-fine dont une dépliante (Chateau de Serrant) dessinées par David, Mme la Comtesse de Serrant et Binet gravées à l'aquateinte par Normand et Gibele pour le Tome II , (XXVII + 558) + (595) pages , 1821-1823 Saumur : Degouy aîné Editeur, , ‎

‎Edition Originale......Notes manuscrites à la mine de plomb de la main du "Baron Olivier De Wismes" sur les gardes finales..SUPERBE RELIURE EN MAROQUIN.....RARE.................en bon état (good condition). ‎

‎ Recherches historiques: sur la ville de Saumur, ses monuments et ceux de son arrondissement - Sur la ville d'Angers, ses monuments et ceux du Bas - Anjou - 2 ème édition- complet en 2 volumes‎

‎ 1845 Saumur chez Dubosse, Godet 1845-1846 - Complet des 4 parties en 2 vol in-8 - 1/2 Reliure frottée, épidermures - Dos lisse à filets - Orné de 2 frontispices, 18 planches HT, certaines PP : vues, plans, cartes, détails d'architecture - . 2ff n ch & 624pp (Saumur) - 1f n ch & 698pp (Angers) complet de ses 20 planches - Ex-libris" Testament de M. Aug. Lièvre, curé de Nueil du 2 avril 1827 au 11 juin 1876 - Partie du don fait à la fabrique à l'usage du clergé de Nueil - bibilothèque : 643 volumes - De Profondis" - Frais intérieurement - bon état général - Réf. ‎

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‎Front Populaire 1936.‎

‎"Armand Colin. 1961. in-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. Paris, Armand Colin, collection ""Kiosque"", 1961, in 12, broché, photos, 293 pp.. . . . Classification Dewey : 944-Histoire de France varia"‎

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‎FRONT POPULAIRE 1936‎

‎, Paris, Armand Colin 1961, in-8, br., ENVOI DES AUTEURS, (couv. lég. fanée), bon état, 296p.‎

‎Chalon, sur la Saône. Une ville frontalière au temps de la Renaissance (1477-1610).‎

‎ Vy-lès-Filain, Editions Franche-Bourgogne 2024, 265x205mm, 427pages, reliure d'éditeur. Cartonnage illustré. Accrocs sur la coiffe supérieure, autrement bel exemplaire. ‎

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‎UN MARIN D'INFORTUNE MATHIEU-CYPRIEN RENAUDIN HÉROS MÉCONNU DU "VENGEUR"‎

‎Saintes; Le Croît Vif, 1 volume broché de format 22 x 14,5 cm, 224 pages, très bon état.‎

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‎La France - Essais sur l’histoire et le fonctionnement des institutions politiques françaises‎

‎1 vol. in-8 rel. demi-percaline bordeaux, Librairie Guillaumin et Cie, Paris, 1901, 506 pp.‎

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‎Bon état.‎

‎The Armature of Conquest. Spanish Accounts of the Discovery of America, 1492-1589‎

‎Stanford, Stanford University Press 1992 318pp., 23cm., softcover, good condition, G105827‎

‎Eine Bibliothek der Weltliteratur.‎

‎Zürich Atlantis Verlag 1948 1 vol. relié in-8, cartonnage sous jaquette, 168 pp., fac-similés hors-texte. Texte en allemand. Très bon état.‎

‎Le Principali Problematiche Del Dialogus De Oratoribus - panoramica storico-critica dal 1426 al 1990‎

‎Lubrecht & Cramer Ltd 1993 15x21x3cm. 1993. Broché.‎

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‎édition en italien - couverture légèrement défraîchie intérieur propre proche du très bon état deux lignes caviardées sur le 4e plat‎

‎Au soleil de Besagne‎

‎1989, Var matin, in-8 broché de 400 pages, jaquette noire illustrée en couleurs, Si le rugby, le rugby-club et Toulon nous étaient contés, illustrations en noir et blanc | Etat : bon état, couverture légèrement défraîchie (Ref.: ref86148)‎

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‎Au soleil de Besagne‎

‎1989, Var matin, in-8 broché de 400 pages, jaquette noire illustrée en couleurs, Si le rugby, le rugby-club et Toulon nous étaient contés, illustrations en noir et blanc | Etat : bon état, quelques frottements (Ref.: ref89997)‎

‎Var Matin‎

‎Mon grand mécano quantique. ‎

‎Paris Flammarion 2019 Un volume in-8 dos collé, couverture blanche et bleue illustrée, 156 pages, illustrations in-texte. Bon état. ‎

‎ La librairie est ouverte du mardi au samedi de 9h30 à 12h30 et de 13h30 à 19h00. Commandes par courriel ou téléphone. Envoi rapide, emballage soigné. ‎

‎Belgique, unité et diversité.‎

‎Duculot, 1987. 25 x 30, 208 pp., très nombreuses illustrations en couleurs, reliure d'édition pleine toile + jaquette (cartonnage) très bon état.‎

‎Etude sur les noms de famille du Pays de Liège : origine, étymologie, classification‎

‎Liège, Imp. Vaillant-Carmanne 1880 229pp., 25cm., reliure demi-cuir d'époque, plats décorés, titre doré au dos, brochure originale conservée et reliée, feuilles de garde marbrées, texte et intérieur sont frais, extrait du 'Bulletin de la Société liégeoise de littérature wallonne', bon état, B121143‎

‎Les promenades de Spa : Guide du promeneur à pied, à cheval et en voiture‎

‎Bruxelles, Vve. Ch. Vanderauweraa s.d. [ca.1883] 145pp., 4e édition, 19cm., brochure originale (dos restaurée) bien protégée d'une couverture supplementaire transparente de papier cristal, texte frais et en bon état, B121627‎

‎Le théatre et la musique à Spa au temps passé et au temps présent‎

‎Bruxelles, Imp. Vve. J. Rozez 1885 245pp. + frontispice, avec table des noms propres, 2e édition considérablement augmentée, 20cm., reliure solide moderne en toile verte, titre doré au dos, texte frais, bon état, B121631‎

‎Le Concordat. Sa négociation, ses 17 articles, son histoire de 1801 à 1903‎

‎GENESTE Auguste. 1903. In-8. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur acceptable. 175 pages. Quelques illustrations en noir et blanc, hors-texte. Quelques passages soulignés dans le texte au crayon à papier. Charnières et coiffes légèrement usées.. . . . Classification Dewey : 944-Histoire de France varia‎

‎ Classification Dewey : 944-Histoire de France varia‎

‎Catalogue de livres à prix réduits de Bodé, libraire à Alençon.‎

‎Paris, Imprimerie de Pommeret et Moreau, 1853 ; in-8, broché, couverture impr. 40 pp. sur 2 colonnesCatalogue daté du 10 décembre 1853. Ce libraire d’Alençon proposait, en soldes, une grande quantité de livres publiés dans les années 1830-40. “Tous les ouvrages sont garantis neufs et complets, tels qu’ils ont été publiés par les éditeurs. Presque tous ont des couvertures imprimées” précise une note en couverture. Les rabais consentis sont souvent considérables. Un exemple : le Voyage d’Espagne du Comte A. de La Borde, 4 vol. grand in-folio avec 275 planches est cédé à 175 frs. au lieu de 1008. Bel exemplaire.‎

‎Theatrum machinarum novum, exhibens aquarias, alatas, iumentarias, manuarias, pedibus ac ponderibus versatiles, plures, et diversas molas… Ex Germania in Latium recens translatum opera R.D. Henrici Schmitz. Le théâtre des inventions de Boeckler‎

‎Illustré de 154 superbes planches finement gravées. Cologne, 1662.In-folio de (1) f.bl., 1 frontispice gravé, (10) pp., 55, (1) p.bl., 154 planches numérotées à pleine page. Premier cahier piqué. Relié en veau brun granité de l’époque, roulette à froid encadrant les plats, dos à nerfs orné, charnières anciennement restaurées, coupes décorées, tranches mouchetées. Reliure de l’époque. 330 x 220 mm.‎

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‎Première édition en latin de ce spectaculaire traité d’inventions mécaniques de Boeckler. Brunet, I, 1024. Le présent ouvrage parut initialement en allemand chez Fürst en 1661, et fut traduit en latin l’année suivante par Henri Schmitz. Architecte de la ville de Nuremberg, Boeckler (1617-1687) compose cet important recueil de moulins et autres inventions de mécanique complexes et variées. L’auteur propose dans son traité des manières de construire des aqueducs, des fontaines, des pompes, des jets d’eau, des siphons pour éteindre le feu, des machines élévatrices, des moulins à eau et à vent, d’autres qu’on fait tourner à la force des bras, ou avec les pieds,... Ces moulins ne sont pas tous pour le même usage, il y en a qui servent à moudre le blé, d’autres sont pour faire du papier, pour le Salpêtre, pour broyer des couleurs, pour scier le bois ou la pierre, pour les drapiers, des presses d’imprimeurs, etc. Il y a des machines pour élever de grands fardeaux, d’autres qui servent à l’attaque et à la défense des places, dans la construction des édifices, etc. Boeckler étudie les nombreux usages que l’on peut faire de la roue dentée en mécanique. Il analyse les divers moyens de faire tourner cette roue, depuis l’eau ou le vent jusqu’à la force humaine ou animale. Avec un sens artistique manifeste, l’architecte illustre en 154 superbes planches en taille-douce les inventions mécaniques les plus variées. Plusieurs de ces estampes sont des projets conçus par l’auteur avec une imagination débridée et une réelle connaissance des mécanismes dans les inventions proposées. La dernière planche de l’ouvrage, qui manque souvent, est du plus haut intérêt car elle représente une pompe à incendie dirigée par 7 hommes en action, invention allemande toute récente créée en 1658 par l’ingénieur allemand Hans Hautsch. La planche 5 présente une machine à fabriquer de l’encre pour les impressions de gravures sur cuivre. Précieux exemplaire conservé dans sa reliure de l’époque.‎

‎Historia belli danici, annis 1643, 1644, 1645 gesti scripta à Johanne Henrico Boeclero. Accesit index cujus institutum epistola ad lectorem operi præmissa exponit.‎

‎Stockholm, Nicolai Wankijff, 1676. 4to. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands with gilt lettering and ornamentation to spine. Small paper label to upper compartment on spine. Light wear to extremities, most of the gilting worn off. Ex-libris (Carl Juel, Danish statesman and owner of Valdemar's Castle) to verso of front board. With occassional underlinings in contemporary hand throughout. A good copy. (22), 580, 48, (62) pp. ‎

‎First edition, published posthumously, of Boeclerus’ main work on Swedish history. The second part contains, with a seperate title page, the peace treaty between Kristina and Christian IV in 1645: the Peace of Brömsebrofreden.‎