Desseins de professions nobles et publiques

First published 1605 "Histoire de la maison de Bovrbon, contenant antre autres choses memorables, la vie & les gestes signalés de Monseigneur Charles dernier Duc de Bourõnois & d'Auvergne ... ecrite par son secretaire Marillac"--Leaves 227v-294v "Discovrs, sur l'interpretation des Eloges, Devises, Emblêmes, & Inscriptions de l'Arc Trionfal erigé à l'antrée du Roy an sa ville de Movlins le 26. Septambre 1595"--Leaves 383r-396r "Examen des almanachz, predictions, presages et divinations"--Leaves 396v-431v. "Des philtres, brevvages, charmes, sortileges, anneavs magiqves, et avtres fascinations diaboliqves an amovr"--Leaves 433v-444v "Des peintvres convenables avs basiliqves et palais dv roy, et memes a sa Gallerie du Louvre"--Leaves 446r-453v Engraved port. of Laval, leaf [13]v, 1st sequence. Coat of arms on facing page. Full-page port. of Henri IV, signed by Thomas de Leu, 450v. Full-page representation of the regalia of France, [454]r, also signed by de Leu. Head- and tail-pieces. Grotesque initials Signatures: ã e i õ A-4R 4S(-4S4) chi 2chi² 4S 4T-6F (1st 3 leaves of chi signed 4S4-4S6; 2chi1-2 signed 4S7-4S8) Binding: old mottled calfskin (repairs). Tooled in gilt along margins of boards with double fillets, and on spine. Spine label with title & author in gilt. Page edges sprinkled red and black Signed in pencil on front pastedown by E.K. Waterhouse