131 - Troisième recueil, containing the history of the most memorable events that occurred during the League, A rare account of the Wars of Religion in France in a 17th-century binding

Troisième recueil, containing the history of the most memorable events that occurred during the League, A rare account of the Wars of Religion in France in a 17th-century binding A beautiful octavo volume containing the *Troisième recueil, contenant l’histoire des choses plus mémorables avenues sous la Ligue*, published in 1593, with a printer’s mark on the title page bearing the motto “Pietate iustitia,” in a 17th-century full-parchment binding with a gold-stamped supralibros on the upper cover. The volume compiles accounts of the events of the French Wars of Religion, with particular reference to the political and religious crisis of the Catholic League at the end of the sixteenth century. A significant source for the history of France during the conflict between Catholics and Protestants, it documents one of the most turbulent periods in modern European history. An account of the French Wars of Religion in a seventeenth-century binding