Louis d'Orléans. La plante humaine, sur le trespas du Roy Henry le Grand

Où il se traicte du rapport des hommes avec les plantes qui vivent & meurent de mesme façon: Et où se refute ce que'a escrit Turquer contre la Regence de la Royne & le Parlement, en son liure de la Monarchie Aristodemocratique. A la Royne Mere du Roy Louys XIII. Par Louys Dorleans. Lyon, Par la Vesue Claude Morillon, 1622, 480,(24) p., 19th-century vellum, both covers with gilt border around sides, gilt and ribbed spine, gilt inside meander, marbled endpapers, a.e.g.

Occas. unobtrusive wormholing and occas. sl. foxed. Vellum sl. discol. and sl. nibbled by silverfish on front cover. The upper pastedown is loosening from cover, revealing an intriguing printed document filled out in pen, dated 1776. Copy from the Chateau Mouchy library, with its heraldic bookplate on upper pastedown. This library was sold at auction in 1872 (catalogue digitally available); our work was sold as number 1592, location "H 7": "Livre curieux, dédié à la Reyne Mère (Marie de Medicis)." The second edition (first: 1612).