![[LEDGER BINDING.] Registre des contracts promesses et obligations faiects et passes au nom du Roy tant par les seigneurs de haute fort et de sancycydevant ambassadeurs pour sa maiestis aux ligues de Suisse. Que par les seigneurs de mandelet, de hautefort, et de fleury et depuis par ledict seigneur de fleury seul, a present ambassadeur ausdictes ligues. Aux colonels et cappitaines de ladicte nation qui ont faiet et font service a sadicte maieste. France, 1582.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2006/NYR/2006_NYR_01769_0217_000(122634).jpg?w=1)
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[LEDGER BINDING.] Registre des contracts promesses et obligations faiects et passes au nom du Roy tant par les seigneurs de haute fort et de sancycydevant ambassadeurs pour sa maiestis aux ligues de Suisse. Que par les seigneurs de mandelet, de hautefort, et de fleury et depuis par ledict seigneur de fleury seul, a present ambassadeur ausdictes ligues. Aux colonels et cappitaines de ladicte nation qui ont faiet et font service a sadicte maieste. France, 1582.
422 x 282 mm. MANUSCRIPT ON PAPER. 247 leaves, of which 76 contain writing. (Some dampstaining and wear to edges, affecting some letters.) Contemporary French ledger binding of blind-tooled calf, reinforced with characteristic five strips of leather passing horizontally across the back and partially over each side, fastened to the surface by ornamentally interlaced hide stitching, front cover with gilt fleur-de-lis and a panel containing the arms of Henri III of France (1551-1589) painted in blue and incorporating three gilt fleurs-de-lis , back cover with intersecting triple fillets filled with blind fleurs-de-lis (some flaking to paint, minor wear to extremities); brown quarter morocco folding caseProvenance: Fernand de Mely, Chateau du Mesnel Germain Calvados (inscription on flyleaf); purchased from Emil Offenbacher, 11 May 1965.
Accounts, presumably for retention in the royal chancery, of the undertakings made in the kings name by his ambassadors to the Swiss League in Geneva.
422 x 282 mm. MANUSCRIPT ON PAPER. 247 leaves, of which 76 contain writing. (Some dampstaining and wear to edges, affecting some letters.) Contemporary French ledger binding of blind-tooled calf, reinforced with characteristic five strips of leather passing horizontally across the back and partially over each side, fastened to the surface by ornamentally interlaced hide stitching, front cover with gilt fleur-de-lis and a panel containing the arms of Henri III of France (1551-1589) painted in blue and incorporating three gilt fleurs-de-lis , back cover with intersecting triple fillets filled with blind fleurs-de-lis (some flaking to paint, minor wear to extremities); brown quarter morocco folding caseProvenance: Fernand de Mely, Chateau du Mesnel Germain Calvados (inscription on flyleaf); purchased from Emil Offenbacher, 11 May 1965.
Accounts, presumably for retention in the royal chancery, of the undertakings made in the kings name by his ambassadors to the Swiss League in Geneva.