Item #77 Défense des droits et prérogatives des roys de France contre Alexandre Patrice Armacan, théologien. Anonymous, attributed to Catholic polemicists of the League.
Défense des droits et prérogatives des roys de France contre Alexandre Patrice Armacan, théologien
Défense des droits et prérogatives des roys de France contre Alexandre Patrice Armacan, théologien
Défense des droits et prérogatives des roys de France contre Alexandre Patrice Armacan, théologien
Défense des droits et prérogatives des roys de France contre Alexandre Patrice Armacan, théologien
Défense des droits et prérogatives des roys de France contre Alexandre Patrice Armacan, théologien

Défense des droits et prérogatives des roys de France contre Alexandre Patrice Armacan, théologien

Publisher: Paris: Pierre Rocolet, Imprimeur & Libraire ordinaire du Roy, 1639.

Edition: First French edition

Binding: Contemporary limp vellum, made from manuscript waste with visible script. Soiled and worn, but sound.

Description: Rare Paris printing from 1639, a royalist polemic defending the rights and prerogatives of the French monarchy during the Wars of Religion. Presented as a rebuttal to Protestant resistance theory, and invoking the title Vindiciae Gallicae, the text attacks the arguments of Huguenot writers who advocated the right to oppose or depose kings. Printed by Pierre Rocolet, official printer and bookseller to the King.

The book is bound in contemporary limp vellum fashioned from recycled manuscript leaves, with neat visible script on both boards, a desirable example of binder’s waste. The volume contains extensive contemporary and later manuscript annotations on the title and endleaves, including commentary identifying parallels to the famous Vindiciae contra tyrannos and later notes reflecting on the political theory of the text.
A scarce and highly evocative survival, combining a controversial work of political theology with manuscript evidence of early readers’ engagement. Rarely encountered in commerce.

Condition: Good — vellum soiled and worn, manuscript waste visible on boards; textblock sound with toning and annotations throughout.

Annotation: Rare 1639 Paris royalist polemic (Vindiciae Gallicae), in vellum binder’s waste with extensive contemporary annotations.

Item #77

Price: $1,200.00

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