[BILAIN (Antoine)]. TRAITÉ DES DROITS DE LA REYNE TRES-CHRESTIENNE, sur divers Estats de la Monarchie d'Espagne. S.l.n.e., 1667. Small in-12 ivory vellum with small flaps, smooth spine with visible stitching, title calligraphed on spine in brown ink (Binding of the period); 323 pp. RARE EDITION published in the same year as the first edition, in in-4 format. This treatise, composed on the King's orders by the lawyer Antoine Bilain, is the first and most important of a series of writings intended to justify France's claims to Brabant. ¶ Barbier, IV, 778 -Willems, 1782.

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