AUZOLES LAPEYRE Le Mercure charitable, ou contre-touche et souverain remède pour désempierrer le R.P. Petau jésuite d’Orléans, depuis peu métamorphosé en fausse Pierre-de-touche.

Rare first edition of this scientific work dedicated to chronology. (Brunet, I, 577).

The present edition is illustrated with 6 figures engraved by Jean Picart, including the famous anamorphic portrait of the author, made at Father Niceron’s request. The text is also illustrated with explanatory figures and diagrams.

A beautiful copy of this rare work preserved in its contemporary limp vellum.

Provenance: old stamp of a religious community on the title-page: Collegium Angiense Societatis Jesu.

Only one copy of this work has appeared on the international market in the last thirty years. OCLC doesn’t list any copy, the copy preserved at the British Library is missing the title-page.