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Privilege of the King.

By the Grace and Privilege In the 17th century, a "Privilege" was a form of early copyright. It was an exclusive legal right granted by the monarch to an author or printer, protecting the work from being pirated by others for a specific number of years. of the King, given at Paris on the tenth day of November 1653. Signed, By the King in his Council, PELISSON Paul Pellisson (1624–1693) was a prominent French historian and official who served as a secretary to King Louis XIV.: Permission is granted to PIERRE BOREL, Physician of Castres, to have printed by whichever Bookseller he deems fit, a Book, entitled, Chemical Library, or Catalogue of Hermetic Philosophical Books, etc. original Latin: "Bibliotheca Chimica, seu Catalogus Librorum Philosophicorum Hermeticorum, &c." During the time and space of five years, counting from the day it shall be finished printing. Strictly forbidding...