[PROVENCE] Marchetti, priest of Marseille. Discours sur le négoce des gentilshommes de la ville de Marseille et sur la qualité de nobles marchands qu'ils prenaient il y a cent ans [Discourse on the trade of the gentlemen of the city of Marseilles and their status as noble merchants a hundred years ago]. Marseille, Charles Brebion and Jean Penot, 1671. In-4°, 71 pp, red morocco, spine ribbed and decorated with crowned and gilt L fleurons, gilt roulette in frame, sown with fleur-de-lys (later binding). Slight lack of leather on the back cover, slight rubbing, otherwise a fine copy, rare. The gentlemen wish to demonstrate that the exercise of commerce is not incompatible with that of the nobility