[Rarebooks] FS: 17th c. Jesuit attack on tyrannicide (while defending the Order for killing Henry IV of France)

[Kenneth Karmiole]

(JESUITS) [Pelletier, Thomas]. DE L'INVIOLABLE ET SACRE PERSONNE DES ROIS. Contre Tous Assassins & Parricides Qui Ozent Attenter sur Leurs Maiestez... Paris: Francois Huby. 1610. Sm. 8vo. ff.(1),126. Old thin boards with green diced calf label on front cover "Anno 1610". Minor chips on spine. Ownership signature on verso of title dated 1701. Very light water stain at top corner of fore-margin.                       $450.00 (trade discount allowed)
A very scarce work, it is an attack on tyrannicide while defending the Jesuit Order after one of its members, Ravaillac, assassinated Henry IV of France.

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