Item #002919 Histoire Abregée de St. Vincent de Paul, avec un Grand Nombre d'Anecdotes Importantes. Pierre Collet.
Histoire Abregée de St. Vincent de Paul, avec un Grand Nombre d'Anecdotes Importantes

Histoire Abregée de St. Vincent de Paul, avec un Grand Nombre d'Anecdotes Importantes

Avignon, France: Antoine-Ignace Fez, 1762. Hardcover. xii, [4], 622, [2] p.; 17 cm. Signatures: [pi]8 A-2C12 (12mo). Contemporary full calf with six spine compartments between raised bands. Gilt-tooled title "Vie de S. Vinc. de Paul" on red morocco label in second compartment. Gilt-decoration in remaining compartments. All page edges red. Error in signing: Qv signed Qvi. Printed paper label on front fixed endpaper for bookseller Louis-Guillaume Labottiere, Bordeaux. In an old hand on title page: "ex libris Congregationis Missionis domus Burdigalensis Catalogo inscriptus." Short inscription on front fixed endpaper. The author, Pierre Collet (1693-1770), wrote this biography following the beatification in 1729 and canonization in 1737 of St. Vincent de Paul (1581-1660). It was first published anonymously in 1748; in this somewhat abridged version it became very popular. In Very Good- Condition: leather rubbed with minor loss at tail of spine; corners heavily rubbed; lower corners bumped; some loss of gilt on spine; faint dampstain at upper page corners; otherwise clean and tight. Very Good -. Item #002919

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