Live veiling - Lot 1431
[Jesuitica - Tournai]
L'accord de la grâce et de la liberté. Poëme accompagné de remarques critiques & historiques.
Tournai, L. Varlé, 1740
€ 150 / 200
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Beschrijving lot
4to: portrait-[32]-306-[2] pp. (lower margins sl. dampstained).
Contemp. marbled sheep (sl. rubbed), gilt spine with 5 raised bands (sm. def. at head), red leather title label, gilt sides, red edges. Good copy.
Rare first edition of this poem by the Belgian Jesuit Le Vaillant (1667-1746), responding to the work of Louis Racine which was clearly against the Jesuits. Illustrated with front. medallion portrait of the dedicatee François-Ernest de Salm, bishop of Tournai, engr. by J. Daullé. Text within woodcut border.
Ref. Desmazières 749. - DBS VIII:366/367. - BnF.
Prov. Le Vaillant de Jollain, probably Ferdinand-Alexandre (1852-1925) (armorial bookplate).