210- [RÉLY (Jean de)]. Les Remonstrances faictes au Roy Loys unzième, sur les privilèges de l'Église Gallicane, & les plainctifs & doléances du peuple. Plus l'institution & ordonnance des chevaliers de l'Ordre des trèschrestiens Roys de France. Avec la forme et ordre de l'assemblée des trois estatz tenuz en la ville de Tours, soubz le règne de Charles huictième, & ce qui y fut remonstré, décidé & ordonné. Paris, Vincent Sertenas, 1561, in-8, royal coat of arms on verso of last leaf, long-grained blond morocco, ribbed spine decorated with gilt stippling, fillets and double coffers, framing of fillets and broad gilt garlands on the boards with mosaic squares of fawn morocco in ecoinçon, double gilt fillet on the edges, gilt edges, framing of dent-de-rat, double gilt fillet and garland on the counterplates (Asper frères). Spine faded. A very fine copy in a signed binding from the Geneva workshop of the brothers Hans (1852-1911) and Jacques Asper, active from 1874. They were to produce the kind of fine bindings that made the Asper brothers the leading firm in Geneva. An interesting copy of the Genevan historian Gaspard-Ernest Stroehlin (1844-1907), with a fine bookplate vignette bearing the inscription Champel (where Michel Servet was executed), and the motto "Mente libera".