[MIGNAULT, Claude.] Discours sur la chrestienne & louable enterprise de haut & puissant Prince, Monseigneur Charles de Lorraine, Marquis de Maine, contre le grand Turc, en l’an 1572. Paris: Denys du Pré, 1572. Small 4° (220 x 154mm). Printer’s device on title, 2 woodcut headpieces. (Light spotting at beginning.) Blue morocco by Chambrolle-Duru, stamped in blind with gilt cornerpieces, spine decorated and lettered in gilt, gilt edges, turn-ins (extremities very lightly rubbed).
RARE FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH of this poem advocating the war against the Turks. A Latin translation Eidylium de foelici et christiana profectione was published in the same year.
[MIGNAULT, Claude.] Discours sur la chrestienne & louable enterprise de haut & puissant Prince, Monseigneur Charles de Lorraine, Marquis de Maine, contre le grand Turc, en l’an 1572. Paris: Denys du Pré, 1572. Small 4° (220 x 154mm). Printer’s device on title, 2 woodcut headpieces. (Light spotting at beginning.) Blue morocco by Chambrolle-Duru, stamped in blind with gilt cornerpieces, spine decorated and lettered in gilt, gilt edges, turn-ins (extremities very lightly rubbed).
RARE FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH of this poem advocating the war against the Turks. A Latin translation Eidylium de foelici et christiana profectione was published in the same year.
![[MIGNAULT, Claude.] Discours sur la chrestienne & louable enterprise de haut & puissant Prince, Monseigneur Charles de Lorraine, Marquis de Maine, contre le grand Turc, en l’an 1572. Paris: Denys du Pré, 1572. Small 4° (220 x 154mm). Printer’s device on title, 2 woodcut headpieces. (Light spotting at beginning.) Blue morocco by Chambrolle-Duru, stamped in blind with gilt cornerpieces, spine decorated and lettered in gilt, gilt edges, turn-ins (extremities very lightly rubbed).](https://devapim.christies.com/uat/lot-images/5846721/2014/CSK/2014_CSK_05841_0030_000(mignault_claude_discours_sur_la_chrestienne_louable_enterprise_de_haut075429).jpg?maxwidth=3840)