Ordonnances royaux sur le faict de la justice et authorité d'icelles. Faites par les rois, François I du nom, Henry II, François II. Charles IX. Henri III. Henri IV. & Louis XIII

New edition to which the ordinances of Louis XIII have been added, the first edition of 1606 stopped at Henri IV. The second part is dated 1624 and bears a fleuron in place of the royal arms in the first part like the copy held in Lyon.
Contemporary full vellum binding. Unlettered smooth spine. Missing the endpaper before the title page, and the one covering the board. Work partly detached from its binding. Worming in the middle of the work not touching the text from p. 212 to 242, second part. Trace of pale dampstain at the end of the second part.
An unparalleled source for the history of France, justice touching all layers of society, thus one finds ordinances on games of chance, the poor, hospitals... and the ordinances of Moulin, Blois, Orléans...With the evolution of laws and French society from François 1er to Louis XIII.