MAIMBOURG (Louis)
Histoire de la Ligue. A Paris, chez Sébastien-Mabre-Cramoisi, imprimeur du Roy, 1693; in- 4 (26,5x20 cm), contemporary calf (rubbed, small lacks on edges), spine decorated with nerves. Beautiful frontispiece. (17)- 539-(13) pages, (angular stains on the last six pages). Edition enriched with an autograph letter signed by Louis Maimbourg on the first blank page "Pour Monsieur le Président de Chalin, par son très humble et très obéissant serviteur". Maimbourg, Jesuit preacher, polemicist, was expelled from his order by the pope Innocent XI.
