Question royalle et sa décision

by Jean Duvergier De Hauranne, abbé de Saint-Cyran

$1,750 · Offered by Musinsky Rare Books

12mo 161 x 99 mm . 1 , 56 recte 65 ff. Woodcut title vignette harvesting scene with lion at top , woodcut headpiece and initial. Publisher’s binding? of 18th-century French olive morocco, triple gilt fillet on sides, flat spine gold-tooled and -lettered, gilt edges joints and extremities scuffed, spine a trifle faded .***Counterfeit edition of a meditation on suicide by one of the founders of Jansenism. Reputedly inspired by

• Binding: Leather

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