1686 Attack on Louis XIV of France French Politics Government Christian Princes

1686 Attack on Louis XIV of France French Politics Government Christian Princes

‘The True Interest of Christian Princes’ was a late 17^th-century French pamphlet written by an unknown author who was highly critical of Louis XIV of France. This treatise attacked the French monarch for his inability to rise to greatness and lead morally. The author is unknown and the publisher’s name Jean Marlorat is also presumed to be fictitious, as no other instances of Marlorat appeared in print.

Item number: #8636

Price: $950

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Le vrai interet des princes chretiens, opposeé aux faux interêts, qui ont été depuis peu mis en lumiére. Traité qui represente au vrai l’interêt que les princes chrêtiens, ont à s’opposer aux pretentions d’un roi ambitieux, qui voudroit s’assujettir tous les etats de l’Europe

Imprimé à Strasbourg, par Jean Marlorat, imprimeur ordinaire de la cité, 1686.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages

o   [12], 202

• Language: French
• Binding: Leather; tight & secure

o   Large armorial embossed on front & back boards

• Size: ~5in X 3in (13cm x 8cm)
• Extremely rare and sought after with no other example of this first edition for sale worldwide, but later 1687 editions at $1,500

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