Recherches sur la vie et sur les oeuvres du P. Claude-François Menestrier de la Compagnie de Jésus

by Claude-François Menestrier, Paul Allut

$750 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

First edition

First edition. Title printed in red and black with vignette, engraved portrait of Menestrier, 2 folding plates, 4 lithographic facsimile letters 2 folding . 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary full red morocco, covers with triple gilt fillet borders, spine gilt in 6 compartments, lettered in two, richly gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, t.e.g. Small crack at head of upper joint, otherwise a fine copy, with the small woodcut bookplate of A.R. of Lyon. Item

• Binding: Leather

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