CAYET, Pierre Victoire Palma.- CHRONOLOGIE SEPTENAIRE | DE | L’HISTOIRE | DE LA PAIX ENTRE | LES ROYS DE FRANCE | ET D’ESPAGNE. | Contenant les choses plus memorables adue- | nuës en France, Espagne, Allemagne, Italie, | Angleterre, Escosse, Flandres, Hongrie, Portugal, Suece, Transyluanie, & autres en- | droits de l’Europe: auec le succez de plusieurs | nauigations faictes aux Indes Orientales, Oc- | cidentales & Septentrionales, depuis le com- | mencement de l’an 1598. iusques à la fin de l’an 1604. | DIVISEE EN SEPT LIVRES.- A Paris: Par Iean Richer, M. D. CV. [1605].- [4], 498 f.: 1 frontispício gravado; 17 cm.- E. Pierre Cayet (1525-1610), French theologian and historian, born in Montrichard (Touraine); A friend of Pierre de La Ramée, he studied in Geneva, having embraced Calvinism, which he abjured in 1595. Cayet was part of the court of Catherine of Bourbon, or of Navarre (1559-1604), sister of King Henry IV of France (1553 -1610). Original edition (second printing) that includes one of the first accounts of the journey of the French navigator, cartographer and explorer Samuel Champlain (1567/74-1635) to North America and Canada, where, in 1608, he would found the city of Québec. The copy presents page 207 with the amended and correct foliation (107 in the first edition) and retains the rare architectural frontispiece, engraved on copperplate, signed J. de Weert f., not mentioned in the bibliographies. Magnificent contemporary binding, entirely made of burnished parchment (vélin doré), with missing ties, double golden fillet squared on the covers and sections with fleur-de-lis; in the center of the front covers, the coat of arms of Henry IV, engraved in gold, with the necklaces of the orders of St. Michael and the Holy Spirit; gilt edges. Sabin, 11627. Palau, 50667 (mention two final pages). Harrisse (Nouvelle France), p. 284.