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63 - [GENEALOGY]. HISTORY OF THE SACRED, ROYAL, AND MILITARY ORDER OF OUR LADY OF MERCY, for the Redemption of Captives, Dedicated to the King. Compiled by the Reverend Fathers of Mercy of the Congregation of Paris. Amiens, Guislain Le Bel, 1685. Folio, brown calfskin, decorated ribbed spine, gilt title, marbled edges (contemporary binding); frontispiece, (5) ff., 998 pp., (14) ff. of tables. Skillfully restored binding; gilt on the spine has tarnished; slight water stain at the top of the last 6 table leaves. FIRST EDITION of this “important and very rare book” (Saffroy). Dedicated to Louis XIV, this work recounts the history of a mendicant order that was originally a military order founded in the 13th century by Pierre NOLASQUE (1181–1245) to ransom Christians captured by Moorish pirates and reduced to slavery. BEAUTIFUL FRONTISPICE engraved on copper by F. Ertinger, 2 full-page ENGRAVINGS of religious knights in their habits (pp. 48/49), initials, headpieces, and coats of arms in the text. ¶ Saffroy, no. 4417: “An important and very rare book.”
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[GENEALOGY]. HISTORY OF THE SACRED, ROYAL, AND MILITARY ORDER OF OUR LADY OF MERCY, for the Redemption of Captives, Dedicated to the King. Compiled by the Reverend Fathers of Mercy of the Congregation of Paris. Amiens, Guislain Le Bel, 1685. Folio, brown calfskin, decorated ribbed spine, gilt title, marbled edges (contemporary binding); frontispiece, (5) ff., 998 pp., (14) ff. of tables. Skillfully restored binding; gilt on the spine has tarnished; slight water stain at the top of the last 6 table leaves. FIRST EDITION of this “important and very rare book” (Saffroy). Dedicated to Louis XIV, this work recounts the history of a mendicant order that was originally a military order founded in the 13th century by Pierre NOLASQUE (1181–1245) to ransom Christians captured by Moorish pirates and reduced to slavery. BEAUTIFUL FRONTISPICE engraved on copper by F. Ertinger, 2 full-page ENGRAVINGS of religious knights in their habits (pp. 48/49), initials, headpieces, and coats of arms in the text. ¶ Saffroy, no. 4417: “An important and very rare book.”
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