Recueil de l'ordre des Jésuites tirés des... - Lot 7 - Giquello

Recueil de l'ordre des Jésuites tirés des bons et assurés autheurs et des accidens notoires [Geneva], Jean Petit, 1620 COPY BÉHAGUE ORIGINAL EDITION Small in-8 (157 x 97 mm). Initials and woodcut headbands COLLATION : a-f8 CONTENTS : a1r : engraved title, a2r : Tragécomédie des Jésuites, a3r : text Eighteenth century binding. Red morocco, gilt decoration, double fillet in frame with fleuron at the corners, long spine decorated with grotesque, vertical titling, gilt edges PROVENANCE: Catherine de Béhague (circa 1780-?; bookplate on last leaf) RARITY: not in the Quaritch catalog The Society of Jesus, London, 1996. According to viaLibri no copies have been found in the United States to date A little short at the head, leaf f8 restored Nicolas Richard de La Barrolière (?-1635) was rector of the General Almshouse in Lyon and general treasurer of the King in Dauphiné from the 1600s. This text was published at the beginning of the Thirty Years' War, two years after the defenestration of Prague, and gives a country by country account of the Society of Jesus. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Carlos Sommervogel, Library of the Society of Jesus, 1932, t. XI, p. 59, n° 411-a