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334 - Marin, R.P. Michel-Ange. – The Lives of the Desert Fathers o…
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Estimate €80 - €120
Description
Marin, R.P. Michel-Ange. – The Lives of the Desert Fathers of the East, with their spiritual teachings and monastic discipline. Avignon, Veuve Niel et fils, 1761. 3 volumes in-4, full contemporary calfskin, spine with decorated raised bands – 5 capitals worn away, 3 splits in the headband, heavy wear to the leather, corners pierced, edge of the outer margin of the last 21 leaves of Vol. II, browned; foxing on the upper corners of the first 23 folios of Vol. III, with partial disintegration; a tear with no loss of text at the bottom of folio B4 of Vol. III – XXVI, 576, [2] pp.; IV, 594, [2] pp.; [4], VIII, 573, [3] pp. Text in two columns. First edition of this meticulous study of the lives of these ‘Solitary Saints’.
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