[PELLETIER (Thomas)]. Discours lamentable sur l'attentat &am - Lot 648

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[PELLETIER (Thomas)]. Discours lamentable sur l'attentat &am - Lot 648
[PELLETIER (Thomas)]. Discours lamentable sur l'attentat & parricide commis en la personne de tres-heureuse mémoire Henry IIII Roy de France, & de Navarre. Rouen, Jean Petit, 1610. Small in-8 (15 x 10 cm) of 15 pp. paperback, marbled paper cover. Short margins (with occasional minor damage to text). Woodcut portrait of Henri IV on title. Rare edition published in Rouen in the year of the original (concomitant with 5 other editions) of this pamphlet reporting on Ravaillac's attempt on Henri IV's life on May 14, 1610. The text was even translated into English and published in London. Sometimes attributed to Pierre Pelletier or Jacques Pelletier (according to Tchemerzine), the pamphlet is more likely the work of Thomas Pelletier, author of numerous historical and political works about his time. Ex-libris J.M. (Barbier I, 1020; Tchemerzine IX, 159.)
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