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242 - [Gauthier, Abbé François-Louis].
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Estimate €80 - €120

Description

[Gauthier, Abbé François-Louis].—A Treatise against the Love of Adornment and the Luxury of Clothing, by the author of the Treatise against Dancing and Indecent Songs. Second edition, expanded with several important reflections; a useful work, chiefly for fathers and mothers and for nuns who take in boarders, whether young or old. Paris, Augustin-Martin Lottin the Elder, 1780. Small 12mo, bound in period full marbled calf with a smooth, decorated spine and a burgundy title label – tear to the top cap, leather-covered joints, rubbed corners – XII pp. (half-title page, title page, preface, table of contents, approval), 250 pp. (including the Papal Edict in Italian, translated into French within the text on p. 89)

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242 - [Gauthier, Abbé François-Louis]. See original version (French)

242 - [Gauthier, Abbé François-Louis].
See original version (French)