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176725799Cologne: Nyon 1767. 8vo 19.7 cm 7.75". Frontis. iv lvi 576 pp.; 3 plts. <br><br>First edition: Life of the celebrated yet controversial viceroy and reformer Bishop Juan de Palafox y Mendoza. Abbé Dinouart consulted an unpublished biography begun by the Jesuit Pierre Champion and halted due to Champion's "franchise" according to Barbier to produce this important account of Palafox's life accomplishments and disputes with the Jesuits. Dinouart's Vie includes the text in French translation of Palafox's letters to the king of Spain and to Pope Innocent X on behalf of the cruelly treated Mexican Indians as well as the text of the petition by Charles III of Spain to the Pope requesting that Palafox be considered for canonization.<br>Â Â Â Â => The work is illustrated with a frontispiece and three copper-engraved plates done by Louis le Grand after designs by Gravelot. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Sabin 20201; Palau 73986; LeClerc Bibliotheca Americana 3180; Barbier Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes et pseudonymes 100304. Contemporary mottled calf spine gilt extra with gilt-stamped leather title-label; corners joints and spine extremities rubbed spine with two pinpoint holes and surface cracks to leather. Front free endpaper partially separated with pencilled annotation on verso; inner margins of one plate and opposing page with small area of offsetting from now-absent laid-in item pages otherwise clean. All edges marbled in blue. An attractive copy. Nyon hardcover books
17482305728S.N 1748. First Edition. First Edition. Very Good/No Jacket. Corners slightly exposed. 1748 Full-Leather. 32 106; 107-334; 335-474 pp. Contemporary mottled calf marbled endpapers spine gilt with red leather label red edges. Frontispiece engraved vignette on title and on first page of each of the three parts as called for this copy bound without the separate titles to the 2nd and 3rd parts found in some copies. An immensely popular which was banned upon its release and burned by the French court of justice. The scandal it caused would follow the author for the rest of his life eventually it became thought that the work advocated regicide. Nonetheless it became an influential work that went through at least 15 editions in 1748 and elicited a number of replies. Parts of it were later reused in Denis Diderot's Encyclopedie. This 474 page printing which was also issued in a large-paper 4to. format is generally considered the first. The book was banned by the French parlement on May 6 1748 and the author was subsequently forced to seek asylum in the Low Countries. The present volume is enhanced by having two additional items bound in: a printed copy of that Arrest de la Cour du Parlement S.N unknown books
