[Vincent de La Loupe] - Commentarii Vincentii lupani, de Mag - Lot 344

[Vincent de La Loupe] - Commentarii Vincentii lupani, de Magistratibus, & Praefecturis Francorum: ad Jacobum Brollatum, Archbishop of Arles. Paris, Guillaume Le Noir, 1551. 2 in-8 volumes, bound together in a single 19th-century half-basane volume, ribbed spine, title label—cardboard covers scuffed at the edges and corners, small marginal tear on the title page and the two following leaves, without damage to the text, 31ff. (Part One, including the title page); 16 ff. (Part Two, including the title page). Contemporary handwritten notes on the title page, including the bookplate “Masuher” and the signature of J. Cousin on the last leaf (The Elder, the Younger, or...?) with the following comment: “Johan Cousin may possess me, govern me, and do with me as he pleases—J. Cousin.” Rare commentaries by Vincent de La Loupe, dedicated to Jacob Broll, Archbishop of Arles, on magistrates and governors, constituting the first precise description of the duties of the various officials of the kingdom—(Brunet III, 779). Bound at the end with: [Scévole de Sainte-Marthe]—Gallorumn Doctrina illustrium, qui nostra patriumque memoria floruerunt, Elogia. Augustoriti Pictonum, Ex officina Jo. Blanceti, 1602 - [viii pp., including the title page], 109 pp. (first book), [1 p.]; pp. 111–196 (second part), [11 pp., including the Table of Contents]—some old underlining. Beautiful typographical mark of Jean Blanchet on the title page. Brunet V, 63, for this second edition of the Eulogies of Sainte-Marthe (born and died in Loudun, 1536–1623).