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1748ref. 244117Paris: Veuve Estienne 1748. hardcover. very good. 424 pages 16 mo full mottled calf marbled edges small chip at base of spine. Paris: Veuve Estienne 1748. Very good . Veuve Estienne unknown books
1774ref. 008688Madrid Spain: oficina de la Viuda de Manuel Fernandez 1774. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Small 8vo. SCARCE. no copies of this volume found at OCLC with few listings of any of the other volumes. Very Good in contemporary calf edges died red wear to calf at head of spine light wear to boards. Internally clean and bright well bound. Massillon was a French Baptist Bishop who was famous in his time for his sermons. oficina de la Viuda de Manuel Fernandez Hardcover books
1805ref. 45613Hartford: Lincoln & Gleason 1805. Sermons of two 18th-century Catholic priests renowned for their strong preaching. Translated from the French by the Rev. Abel Flint of Hartford. An unusual New England Catholic item. 12mo. Contemporary calf spine gilt leather label. Corners bumped extremities rubbed. Modern bookplate on front pastedown; contemporary ownership inscription on front flyleaf. Minor foxing and toning. Very good. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 8877. PARSONS 272. hardcover books
1762ref. 244043Paris: Herissant 1762. hardcover. very good. Thick 12mo period mottled calf gilt spine raised bands leather spine labels. Pari: Herissant et al 1762 Voltaire kept Massillon's writings on his desk constantly as a model of style saying of him "the preacher who best understood the world whose eloquence savoured of the courtier the academician the wit and the philosopher." Herissant unknown books
1809ref. 208059Paris: Renouard 1809. Premiere Edition. VG light foxing to frontis and title-page and most other pages. French contemporary full crimson straight-grain morocco panels with elaborate boarders with gilt bees in the four inner corners facing the Stylized gilt "N" with gilt crown over top of it edges of covers with fine hatchwork at corners and straight gilt lines between spine in 6 compartments with exquisite gilt tooling and gilt pointille tooling and radiating quadrant leaves the lower compartment with the binder name BEL. P. BOZERIAN JEUNE gilt Greek key borders inside gilt edges.Portrait of Massillon engraved by Augustin de Saint-Aubin. 390 pp. Text in French. An exquisite binding. A very similarly bound copy of this book bound by Bozerian sold at Anderson Galleries in 1939 in Part 4 of The Courtlandt Bishop Library. This copy has all indications of having been bound by Bozerian for Napoleon who was known as a voracious reader. Jean-Claude Bozérian and his younger brother François Bozérian were the leading binders of the First Empire and both worked for Napoleon. The elder Bozérian won the bookbinding medal of the Paris 1801 exhibition and was a busy publisher and bookseller as well. A manuscript invoice for binding work to Napoleon was sold at Christie's in 2005 for work that was performed in 1802. Renouard unknown books