LOUIS XIV

First editions of these 8 edicts, details as follows:
1. Edit du roy portant creation des greffiers des Insinuations ecclésiastiques du mois de decembre 1691. (begins at leaf Aij, without title page or half-title)... 8vo (13x20.5cm)
2. Edit du roy portant creation  de quatre cent greffiers des domaines de gens de main-morte. Chez Estienne Michallet, 1692. 4to (18x23.5cm).
3. Edit du roy portant creation de notaires royaux & apostoliques. Donné à Versailles au mois de decembre 1691.
4. Edit du roy portant creation d'oeconomes sequestres dans tous les dioceses du royaume. Donné à Versailles au mois de decembre 1691. Chez Guillaume Deprez. 1692. 4to (17.5x25cm).
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First edition displaying all the distinctive features of its publication: it presents no capital letters except at the beginning of paragraphs and it is the very first work to have been printed with Voltaire's spelling. Our copy is complete with its errata leaf, which is often missing.
Later bindings (19th century) in full red morocco, Jansenist spines with five raised bands, dates and places gilt at foot, boards struck at center with large gilt typographical fleurons, double gilt fillets on leading edges and headcaps, pastedowns lined with blue morocco presenting a wide gilt decorative border, monogrammed bookplates mounted on the pastedowns of each volume, following endpapers of...