Teixeira, José (1543-1620) Exegesis Genealogica, sive Explicatio Arboris Gentilitiae Galliarum Regis Henrici IIII.
Leiden: ex officina Plantiniana apud Franciscum Raphelengium, 1592.
First edition, quarto, woodcut printer's device to title; several genealogical tables printed as full page text diagrams, bound in contemporary boards, neatly washed, resewn, tears mended; rebacked, later endleaves; ex libris Annibal Fernandes Thomaz with bookplate and shelfmark inside front board, 8 3/4 x 6 1/4 in.
Justification of Henry VI's (1553-1610) right to rule France was a point of great contention upon his assumption of the throne in 1589. The War of the Three Henrys (1587-1589) pitted French Huguenots and the Catholic League against French royalists and the complicated inter-woven succession claims of western Europe.
