LESLIE, John. De titulo et jure serenissimae principis Marie scotorum reginae. Rheims: Joannes Frognaeus, 1580.
LESLIE, John. De titulo et jure serenissimae principis Marie scotorum reginae. Rheims: Joannes Frognaeus, 1580.

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LESLIE, John. De titulo et jure serenissimae principis Marie scotorum reginae. Rheims: Joannes Frognaeus, 1580.

4o (215 x 175 mm). Woodcut border on title and large woodcut folding plate of a genealogical tree. (Light marginal browning). Contemporary limp vellum, spine ink-lettered, remnants of 2 pairs of leather fore-edge ties. Provenance: Le Duc de Vendôme (bookplate).

FIRST EDITION. Leslie (1527-1596), Bishop of Ross, was a leader of the reformation in Scotland. Adams L-543.

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LESLIE, John. De illustrium foeminarum in repub. administranda ac ferendis legibus authoritate, libellus. Rheims: Joannes Frognaeus, 1580.

4o. Woodcut border on title. FIRST EDITION. Adams L-540.

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