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MAIMBOURG, Louis (1610-1686). Histoire des croisades pour la delivrance de la terre sainte. Paris: Sébastien Mabre-Cramoisy, 1675.
4° (254 x 179mm). Additional engraved title, engraved title vignette, initials, headpieces and culs-de-lampes. (Without blank i4, paper flaws leading to tiny marginal chips to additional engraved title and FFff1 and very small marginal hole to Fff3, occasional light spotting and browning, faint dampstaining at end affecting last gathering more heavily.) Contemporary red morocco gilt à la Duseuil, covers panelled in gilt, elaborately gilt spine with raised bands, gilt turn-ins, gilt edges (light waterstain to upper cover, extremities faintly rubbed). Provenance: AUTHORIAL PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION on flyleaf to: -- François d'Aix de La Chaise (1624 -1709; gifted to:) -- Collège de la Trinité, Lyon (booklabel) -- deleted ink inscription on title.
FIRST EDITION; A COPY INSCRIBED TO LOUIS XIV'S CONFESSOR, HANDSOMELY BOUND IN MOROCCO AT THE TIME.
Dedicated to Louis XIV, the book is illustrated with 6 head-pieces etched after Chaveau and Cochin, a frontispiece and numerous engraved tail-pieces. A Jesuit from Nancy expelled from the order by Rome, Louis Maimbourg (1620-1686) was a renowned historian and writer who benefited from the protection of the French king; this history of the Crusades is regarded as his masterpiece.
A remarkable copy, inscribed by the author to Père de La Chaise, Louis XIV's confessor. The inscription reads: 'Pour / Le Tres-Reverend / Pere De La Chaize / Confesseur du Roy / Par Son Tres-humble et tres-obeissant Serviteur / Louis Maimbourg.' [To the reverend father de la Chaise, confessor to the king, from his very humble and very obedient servant].
Père de La Chaise, a fellow Jesuit, became confessor to the King in the year of this edition, 1675, and was to remain in the position until his death, 34 years later. His name is famous to this day, his vast property having been transformed into a cemetery, still known as Père Lachaise and now the largest in Paris.
Inscribed books from the 17th century are very scarce.
Soultrait 17th century 161.
4° (254 x 179mm). Additional engraved title, engraved title vignette, initials, headpieces and culs-de-lampes. (Without blank i4, paper flaws leading to tiny marginal chips to additional engraved title and FFff1 and very small marginal hole to Fff3, occasional light spotting and browning, faint dampstaining at end affecting last gathering more heavily.) Contemporary red morocco gilt à la Duseuil, covers panelled in gilt, elaborately gilt spine with raised bands, gilt turn-ins, gilt edges (light waterstain to upper cover, extremities faintly rubbed). Provenance: AUTHORIAL PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION on flyleaf to: -- François d'Aix de La Chaise (1624 -1709; gifted to:) -- Collège de la Trinité, Lyon (booklabel) -- deleted ink inscription on title.
FIRST EDITION; A COPY INSCRIBED TO LOUIS XIV'S CONFESSOR, HANDSOMELY BOUND IN MOROCCO AT THE TIME.
Dedicated to Louis XIV, the book is illustrated with 6 head-pieces etched after Chaveau and Cochin, a frontispiece and numerous engraved tail-pieces. A Jesuit from Nancy expelled from the order by Rome, Louis Maimbourg (1620-1686) was a renowned historian and writer who benefited from the protection of the French king; this history of the Crusades is regarded as his masterpiece.
A remarkable copy, inscribed by the author to Père de La Chaise, Louis XIV's confessor. The inscription reads: 'Pour / Le Tres-Reverend / Pere De La Chaize / Confesseur du Roy / Par Son Tres-humble et tres-obeissant Serviteur / Louis Maimbourg.' [To the reverend father de la Chaise, confessor to the king, from his very humble and very obedient servant].
Père de La Chaise, a fellow Jesuit, became confessor to the King in the year of this edition, 1675, and was to remain in the position until his death, 34 years later. His name is famous to this day, his vast property having been transformed into a cemetery, still known as Père Lachaise and now the largest in Paris.
Inscribed books from the 17th century are very scarce.
Soultrait 17th century 161.
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