[BRUSLÉ DE MONTPLEINCHAMP (Jean Chrysostome)] - L'histoire d - Lot 114

[BRUSLÉ DE MONTPLEINCHAMP (Jean Chrysostome)] - L'histoire de Filipe Emanuel de Lorraine, Duc de Mercoeur. Cologne, Chez Pierre Marteau, 1689; in-12, printed title page portrait of the Duc de Mercoeur, XXII-357 pp, modern burgundy half cloth binding, smooth spine, speckled edges. Work on the war against the Turks in Hungary. First edition decorated with a frontispiece featuring the portrait of the Duc de Mercoeur and a vignette with the portrait of Joseph 1, King of Hungary. Later editions appear to have been retouched and truncated. This volume contains the funeral oration of the Duc de Mercoeur by S. François de Sales, bishop and prince of Geneva (p. 275). Chartener 533, Noël 2112 + note p. 816: "This first edition is much preferable to the second, in which everything that might be offensive to France, 16 pages at the end, the preface and several paragraphs in the body of the work have been removed" Consultant: Monsieur Philippe HENRY