[Denis GODEFROY (1615–1681), historian]. A letter addressed to him by BATTAILLER, The Hague, October 5, 1663; 2 folio pages. He had read several times the book sent by Godefroy to the Ambassador “on the subject of the English Parliament […] I found in it beauties so carefully sought out and so little known,” even after his two-year stay in London… At the bookstores in The Hague, he “found only books banned in France. These include numerous memoirs contributing to history, some critiques of past and present reigns, and St. Amour’s Journal, detailing what took place in Rome regarding the Five Propositions.” Blau [Joan Blaeu] is finishing the printing of his *Theatrum Civitatum*, which is a collection of all the cities, with their plates and a brief summary of their history; it is a kind of atlas that will comprise many volumes”…