PRIVILEGES, Les, Franchises et Immunitez octroyees par les Roys Treschretiens, aux consuls, eschevins, manans & habitans de la ville de Lyon, & à leur posterité. Avec une ample déclaration des choses plus notables, contenues en iceux, receuillie par M. Claude de Rubis, docteur ès droits, advocat & procureur général de laditte ville & communauté.

A Lyon, Par Antoine Gryphius, 1574. With large printer's mark of Gryphius. (12), 116, (4) pp. Folio. Contemporary supple vellum, damage to outer margin of rear cover (loss of vellum now showing a leaf with manuscript text between the cover and the paste-down), a bit spotted. Gouron & Terrin, 1143; Baudrier, viii, 364; BMSTC, French, p. 387 (under Claude de Rubis); not in Adams. Second edition, first published the previous year, by the same printer and with the same collation, of this collection of privileges, exemptions and immunities granted to (and often reconfirmed) the city of Lyon by various French kings, stressing the importance of the city and its strategic position close to Italy and Switzerland. Dedication to Monseigneur de Mandelot, dated 1573, second dedication to Messieurs les Consuls, Eschevins de la ville et communauté de Lyon, also dated 1573, title-page with small loss in blank outer upper margin, last leaf with small loss of paper in blank margin at foot of the page, verso last leaf with another printer's mark of A. Gryphius, page 116 contains errata.