COURVOISIER (Jean-Jacques)

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COURVOISIER (Jean-Jacques)
L'Austriche saincte ou L'Idée du vray prélat, tirée, de la vie parfaite et innocente, de S. Maximilian, apostre et patron de l'Austriche. Brussels, Godefroy Schoevaerts, 1638. In-4 of 1 engraved frontispiece and 1 portrait, (8) ff, 284 pp. (the last one unnumbered; pagination error, which returns from 93 to 92 and jumps from 180 to 183), (6) ff. on stiff ivory vellum, double gilt fillet crossing at the corners, four juxtaposed irons drawing a gilt fleuron in the centre, traces of binding, smooth spine ornamented, gilt and chased edges (period binding). First edition. It is adorned with a beautiful copper-engraved frontispiece by Corneille Galle and a portrait of the dedicatee, Prince Maximilian, Duke of the two Baviers and Count Palatine of the Rhine. A religious man born in Arbois at the end of the 16th century and who died in the middle of the following century, Jean-Jacques Courvoisier was the founder and the first superior of the Minims of Dole. He is the author of about twenty works, including this one, in which he praises the life of Saint Maximilian, glorious martyr of the 3rd century, this very great Sun, sent by God to warm with his flames Pannonia & to illuminate especially Austria with his divine rays. A precious present copy, whose frontispiece, printed on vellum, was illuminated at the time. The portrait of the dedicatee, on paper, was also illuminated at the time. Several copies of Father Courvoisier's works are known to have been illuminated in this way and the main engravings were printed on parchment in order to be offered as gifts. The prelate obviously had a keen sense of promotion for his works. The copy is perfectly preserved in its first gilt vellum binding, with gilt and chased edges. Engraved bookplate of Nordkirchen Castle. From the library of Charles Van der Elst, with bookplate (I, 1985, no. 71). (François de Scey, Jean-Jacques Courvoisier, minime Franc-comtois. Elements of biography and bibliography in Mélanges offerts à Dominique Courvoisier, 2019, n° 5.- Bibliotheca Belgica, C-888.)
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