saint benedictus (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. reprint edition. 87 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.25 inches. In Stock.

Contemporary full leather binding with title gilt on spine, edges with brass corners. Top of spine missing, binding a bit worn, edges thumbed, first titlepage bit stained, still a good copy. Please see description or ask for photos.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 32mo. 173, [7], 16, [6], 101, 107, [3] pages; paginated separately (front pastedown endpaper worn, title page with inoffensive old ink scribble). Hand coloured portrait tailpiece of Benedict on page 173. Contemporary ownership inscription of Mr Cigaudiere & Celestine Goubier on front and rear free endpapers respectively. All edges red. 54 x 89 mm. Contemporary brown calf (slightly rubbed, corners worn). The Rule of St Benedict is a directory for spiritual and practical monastic life that has remained relevant for over 1500 years. In the Rule, ownership, even of the smallest thing, is forbidden. Not in Bondy, Spielmann nor Welsh. WorldCat locates a single copy, in Utrecht. A rare and early miniature book.

Nanceii, ( Nancy ), Ex typis Petri Antoine (&) Henrici et Petri Thomas, 1759, in-8°, 17 x 10,8 cm, (26) nn pp ( engraved frontispiece, title with vignet, calender) + 540 pp + (2)nn pp + clxxvi pp. ( complete for the ''Pars Aestiva''. ). Printed in two colums. Bound in contemporary full red morocco, both covers with floral gilt decoration, gilt decorated spine. All edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Binding with some traces of use, especially at the extremities (lower corners), inside a clean copy with large lower margins. No provenance markings.