Relation en forme de journal, du voiage pour la redemption des captifs aux roiaumes de Maroc & d'Alger [...].

8vo: portrait-[1]-x-[8]-370-xii-[4] pp. (some browning).

Contemp. calf, gilt-orn. spine with raised bands, red edges (corners and sides rubbed, joints splitting, head and tail def.).

First edition of this account of the mission conducted in Morocco and Algeria by four priests of the Order of the Holy Trinity: Jean de la Faye, Denis Mackar, Augustin d'Arsisas and Henry Le Roy, with the aim of freeing French prisoners. At the end a list of bought-out captives taking up 12 pp. Ill. with an engr. dedicatory portrait of Marie Leszczynska, princess of Poland and Queen of France and Navarra and one engr. fold. pl.
Ref. BnF. - Chadenat 680. - Gay 465.
Prov. Countess Juliette de Robersart, château de Wambrechies (arm. bookpl.).