POUGET (François-Aimé). Instructions on the principal... Lot 15

[POUGET (François-Aimé). Instructions on the principal Duties of the Knights of Malta, drawn up by the Author of the Catechism of Montpellier, on the Memoirs of a Knight of Malta; for the use of the Knights, their confessors, and all those who wish to enter or have their children enter this Order. Where one will find important verities for all kinds of states. Paris, Nicolas Simart, 1712; in 12, spotted fawn calf, spine with nerves, spotted red edges. Binding of the period. The author, a priest of the Oratory, acquired fame by obtaining the return to the faith and the conversion of La Fontaine, shortly before the death of the fabulist, in 1692. Barbier, II, 1951.