A Paris, Chez Jean-Baptiste Coignard, rüe S. Jacques, ŕ la Bible d'Or, 1679, in-folio (39 x 25.5 cm - 15.4 x 10 inches), 41 ff. - 847 pp. - cviii (des Mariages Clandestins) - 18 ff., contemporary full brown calf (little split on 15 cm (5.9 inch.) on the upper part of the first joint, some lacks of leather on the upper spine-end, wears on corners), spine raised on 6 bands, 5 compartments gilt tooled, 1 compartment gilt lettered, sprinkled edges.
Third and one of best editions of this quite rare treatise of the lawyer and President of the fifth investigations room of the Parliament of Paris, Claude Prestre (1611 - Etaples-sur-Mer 1694). In the "Questions notables de Droit", the jurisconsult studies the problems arising by the succession of Louis X, deceased in 1316 without male descent, with a girl suspected of illegitimacy, Jeanne de Navarre, and a child to be born, the future Jean Ist "The first edition has no price, not only because of the additions that one finds in the second edition, but also because the erros found by Gueret in Le Prestre, and corrected" (Camus, 1318). Enriched by a title page printed in red and black, by a large portrait of the author placed as frontispiece, by title device, ornemental engraved letters and by head and tail pieces. Nice copy.