LE ROUX Philibert Joseph: - Lot 140

LE ROUX Philibert Joseph: Histoire du père La Chaize, jésuite & confesseur du Roy Louis XIV. Chez Pierre Marteau, Cologne, 1695. [352, 436 pages]. New enlarged edition for the first volume, frontispiece portrait of Father La Chaise. The second volume is in the original edition, "containing the most secret Particularities of his life. Ses Amours avec plusieurs Dames de la première qualité, & les agréables aventures qui lui sont arrivées dans le cours de ses Galanteries", engraving of a basket of flowers on the title page and preface announcing this volume following the success of the first. Two volumes in-16, full red morocco, boards framed with triple gold edging, smooth spines decorated with irons, three gilt edges, very fresh interiors. Ex-libris of the Marly library, belonging to the artist and academician Victorien Sardou. A handsome and charming copy of this pamphlet, which brought exile to its author from the moment the first volume appeared in 1693.