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KÂ- MONDO / KAPANDJI MORHANGE

157 - [LEAGUE]. Letters from Unyon to be sent throughout Christend…
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[LEAGUE]. Letters from Unyon to be sent throughout Christendom. No place, no publisher, 1589. In-12 (15 x 10 cm), brown cardboard binding. 11 pp.; including the title page, portrait of the Duke of Guise on the verso, coat of arms of Lorraine on the recto of the last leaf. The edges of the vertical leaves have been re-trimmed. Provenance: pasted-in bookplate (Ld Marcel) First edition. A political and religious pamphlet published by the supporters of the Holy Catholic League (the ‘Ligueurs’), led at the time by the city of Paris and the House of Guise, who were in revolt against the king. At the end of 1588, whilst the Estates General were in session at the Château de Blois, Henry III had the two principal leaders of the Catholic League assassinated: Henry I of Lorraine and Louis II of Lorraine. These letters, written a month after the deaths of the Lorraines (January 1589), are addressed to the League supporters, whom the author urges to revolt against Henry III (who would himself be assassinated a few months later, in August 1589).
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