Large In Plano Red Morocco At The Du Seuil "letters From The Illustrious Cardinal Dossat" 1641

Presented in a splendid Du Seuil-style binding in red morocco, spine with raised bands decorated with gilded irons, covers adorned with a fleuron in its center, gilded edges 42 cm x 30 cm x 6.5 cm thick, this remarkable period book "Lettres de l' Illustrious and reverend Cardinal Dossat Bishop of Bayeux to King Henry the Great, & to Monseigneur de Villeroy, from the Year MD XCIV until the Year 1604? Last Edition In Paris, at Michel Blageart, rue de la Calandre, à la fleur de Lys, near the Palais 1641. With a large frontispiece portrait of the Author and a fleuron on the two-color title of his Arms by Roussel A rare copy in good condition with wide original margins, on the embassies and the political exchanges under the Reign of Henry IV with major events under his Reign both in France and in Spain and Italy.These exchanges in the form of letters in particular with the Mareschal de Villeroy are very edifying concerning the History of this monarch by a Man of great influence