Lettres patantes du roy. Portans Permission d'Establir dans ceste ville de Paris & autres de ce Royaume des Chaizes à bras, pour y faire porter de rues à autres Ceux & Celles qui desireront s'y faire porter. Verifiées en Parlement le unziesme Decembre 1617

First edition of this very rare piece concerning the establishment of public sedan chairs in France. Arms of France engraved on wood to the title.
Nineteenth-century binding in half cherry red calf with corners, signed E. Niédrée. Spine with five raised bands decorated with gilt fillets. Blind fillet on the boards.
From the library of Henri Gallice, with his bookplate, an eminent bibliophile who assembled at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century a formidable collection on hunting, subsequently acquired en bloc by Marcel Jeanson.
Small red ink stamp of F. Plane.