FOUQUET (Library ) - RELAND (Hadrian). Dissertationum Miscel - Lot 328

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FOUQUET (Library ) - RELAND (Hadrian). Dissertationum Miscel - Lot 328
FOUQUET (Library ) - RELAND (Hadrian). Dissertationum Miscellanearum. Pars prima. Trajecti Ad Rhenum (Utrecht), Broedelet, 1706. In-12 of [8]-232-[24] pp., [8]-324-[46] pp. Havana calf, spine ribbed and decorated with boxes with the arms of the Jesuits and the Fouquet library (with its bibliophile number: the letter Φ - "Phi" - lined), triple gilt filet framing the plates, red tr. Title vignette. Worn caps and corners, illegible arms at the top, small hole on the second page. Apart from these defects, a good copy with the figures of Nicolas Fouquet (1615-1680) and of the college Louis le Grand. Marquis de Belle-Isle, Viscount of Melun and Vaux, he became an advisor to the Parliament of Metz at the age of 18. Patron of the Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte, he was King's Prosecutor at the Paris Parliament in 1650, then Superintendent of Finance (from 1653 to 1661). He was arrested and imprisoned on the orders of Louis XIV in 1661, and sentenced in 1664 to banishment for life, following a falsified trial. Louis XIV had the trial reviewed and Fouquet was finally imprisoned for life in Pignerol (a royal stronghold in the Alps) where he died in 1680. He had gathered in his residence in Saint-Mandé about 30,000 volumes, a large part of which is now in the National Library. He had donated a perpetual annuity of 6000 books to the Jesuits of Paris (College of Louis the Great) to increase their library. The latter had two intertwined "phi", the arms: silver with a squirrel's head and the Jesuits' number (IHS), struck on the plates or on the back of the books acquired with this annuity.
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