Vie du vénérable Dom Jean de Palafox evêque d'Angélopolis & ensuite evêque d'Osme dédiée a Sa Majeté Catholique.
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 Abbé Dinouart consulted an unpublished biography begun by the Jesuit Pierre Champion and halted due to Champion's "franchise" according to Barbier to produce this important account of Palafox's life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
