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Edit du roy, pour l'establissement de la Compagnie des Indes occidentalles [sic]. : Verifié en Parlement le vnziéme [sic] iour de iuillet 1664. Et en la Chambre des comptes le dernier iuillet 1664

France. Sovereign (1643-1715 : Louis XIV) · 1664 · A Paris : Par René Baudry, tenant son imprimerie ruë Ticquetonne, par priuilege du Roy. · 3 pictures

This 1664 royal edict of Louis XIV, printed in Paris by René Baudry, establishes the French West India Company and was issued for the crown and its merchants and officials. Its woodcut ornaments are baroque in character: a foliate initial L with a winged cherub, a crowned royal arms flanked by cherubs and monogram L's, and a scrolled strapwork band with a central mask, useful for period borders, cartouches and cornice motifs.

Imprint 1664

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