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147 - RELIGION. 8 volumes:
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RELIGION. 8 volumes: - MASSILLON (Jean-Baptiste). Sermons... Funeral Orations and Religious Professions. Paris, Veuve Estienne, Herissant, 1745, in-12, VIpp.-1f.-459pp. Bound in fawn-coloured, grain-textured sheepskin, with a decorated ribbed spine. (Contemporary binding). – Covers scuffed, corners bumped, some quires foxed. - NEPVEU (Father François, S.J.). The Spirit of Christianity, or the Christian’s Conformity to Jesus Christ. Paris, Michallet, 1700, 12mo, 12 unnumbered folios – 380 pp. – 2 folios. Fawn calfskin, decorated ribbed spine, beige title label, marbled edges. (Contemporary binding). - Upper cap rubbed. First edition. - [TREUVE (Simon-Michel)] (1651–1730). Instruction on the Preparations One Must Make for the Sacraments of Penance and the Eucharist. New... expanded edition. Paris, Desprez, Desessarts, 1722, in-12, 12ff. unnumbered – XXIVpp. – 595pp. – 2ff. Contemporary brown calfskin. - Bound copy. Caps rubbed. - HOLDEN (Henri) (?–1665). *Divinae Fidei analysis, seu de fidei christianae resolutione libri duo*... Editio novissima... Paris, Barbou, 1767, 12mo, XXIII pp. – 456 pp. Marbled fawn sheepskin, decorated ribbed spine, title label, marbled edges. (Contemporary binding). - Minor damage to the binding. - [ANONYMOUS]. The Religious Man or Woman Meditating on their Duties during a Retreat. Containing three readings and three meditations over ten days, on the most essential obligations of their State... By L.P.N.R., former provincial superior and professor of theology. Lyon, Besson, (1701), in-12, 14ff.n.ch.–511pp. Contemporary brown calfskin, ribbed spine. - Caps rubbed, binding slightly worn. - [MESENGUY (Abbé François-Philippe)]. A Summary of the History and Morality of the Old Testament, in which the... the very words of Holy Scripture; with Explanations. New edition. Paris, Saillant & Nyon, Vve Desaint, 1774, 12mo, 694 pp. – 1 fol. Contemporary marbled brown calf binding, ribbed spine, decorated panels, red title label, marbled edges. – Slight tears to the lower edges, otherwise in good condition. (Jansenism). - HERVEY (James) and Pierre LE TOURNEUR. Hervey’s Meditations. Translated from the English… Paris, Le Jay, 1781, 2 parts in-12, 2ff.-202pp. - 274 pp. Bound in one volume in fawn-coloured, grained sheepskin, smooth decorated spine, title label, red edges. - A few faint stains, minor scuffing to the binding, one section slightly loose. - HUGUES de SAINT-CHEF (Cardinal) and François LUC de BRUGES. Concordances of the Vulgate edition of the Sacred Scriptures... revised and corrected in accordance with the Scriptures...; first published by Francisco Luca... : subsequently revised by the Parisian and Plantinian correctors, and now finally expurgated in certain places in this Lyon edition... Lyon, Jullieron, 1649, substantial small quarto volume, unpaginated. Contemporary brown calfskin, double fillet framing on the covers, ribbed spine, compartments with gilt fillets. – Binding worn: hinges open, spine worn with a small tear at the bottom, faint water stains on a few leaves.
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Auction time 10/29/2026 at 11:00 AM
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