[MALTA] Lettres Patentes du Roi Henry II...portant confirmation des privileges accordes a l'Ordre de Saint Jean de Jerusalem par Richard, roi d'Angleterre ...Paris: D'Houry, 1789. Rare official edition published in the last years of the Ancien Regime, containing the collection of the letters of license with which the sovereigns of France, from Henry II to Louis XV, confirmed over the centuries the privileges, immunities and rights granted to the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. The work also reproduces the oldest confirmations issued by the kings of England and France, starting from the privileges granted by Riccardo Cuor di Leone during the period of the Crusades, offering an important documentary testimony of the legal and patrimonial position of the Order in the Kingdom of France. 4to (250 x 200mm) frotnespizio, 69 pages, Head engraved with coat of arms of order to the first paper, bound but without blanket. (1)