Jean Bourgoin, La Chasse aux Larrons, or Avant-Coureur de l' - Lot 121

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Jean Bourgoin, La Chasse aux Larrons, or Avant-Coureur de l' - Lot 121
Jean Bourgoin, La Chasse aux Larrons, or Avant-Coureur de l'Histoire de la Chambre de Justice. Books of the public good; and other works made for the research of Financiers & their Perpetrators. No place, 1618. Petit in-8 of (8)-85 pp. Libre Discours et Veritable Iugement sur l'heredité des Offices insinuated in France, in the sweet venom of the annual law. Made by one of the deputies to the Estats Generaux. In Paris, 1615. Small in-8 of 48 pp. Examination of the objections which are made against the Annuel des Offices. Sans lieu, 1618. Petit in-8 of 24 pp. 3 pieces bound in 1 vol. petit in-8, mottled havana calf, spine decorated with nerves, red morocco title piece, red edges (18th century binding). 1. First edition in in-8 format published in the year of the original in-4. Famous pamphlet " contre les pilleries, voleries et forceneries des financiers " in which Bourgoin tries to show the king that the wealth of the kingdom " is in the purse of the financiers ". Bourgoin demands the restoration of the chamber of justice created under Henry IV. At the head of the volume is the following handwritten note, written in the 18th century: "This book is curious and very rare, the Partisans having removed and burned all the copies they could find, and which they paid very dearly, there is only this edition of 1618". Goldsmiths, 470; Bourgeois and Andrew IV, 2440. Last leaf restored. Bound at the head: 2. first edition. Anonymous speech published on the occasion of the Etats Généraux of 1614, against the Paulette or annual duty which establishes in 1604 the heredity of the offices: "Although there is only one legitimate means of acquiring honours, which is virtue and merit, without which there is no honourable office, the most corrupt Estates have never admitted that an abuse by the sight of favour, condemned nevertheless by all wise men, although by favour sometimes the concession of the Office can give as a reward to virtue". Tiny gallery of marginal worms on a few
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