[Exemplaire offert par PATOUILLET]. POUHAT (Jean Baptiste). - Lot 37

[Exemplaire offert par PATOUILLET]. POUHAT (Jean Baptiste). Ludovici magni Galliarum regis panegyricus. Besançon, Louis Rigoine, 1694. In-4°, 105 pp. Basane havane, spine with 5 ornate bands, t. p. in maroquin havane (Binding of the period). First edition of this long poem in praise of Louis XIV. Handwritten ex-dono of Nicolas PATOUILLET, faded bookplate of Besançon College, faded wet stamp, probably largely torn off price label, handwritten bookplate on title largely cut out and formerly filled in. A pencil note states: "curious not only for its subject - a Comtois councillor at the Besançon Parliament praising Louis XIV sixteen years after the conquest of Franche-Comté - but above all for its provenance, since it comes from the Jesuit Patouillet, who has always been suspected of active sympathy for France. Unfortunately, the name of the addressee has been partly torn out: a Salinois, a compatriot of Patouillet, but which one? The volume appears to have come from the Bibliothèque Impériale de Metz (before 1871). Restored binding with a few flaws, some worm work in the inner margin, title and one f. restored.