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ALLUT, Paul. Recherches sur la vie et sur les oeuvres du P. Claude-François Menestrier de la Compagnie de Jésus. Lyon: N. Scheuring, 1866.
8o (234 x 152 mm). Title in red and black with vignette, half-title. Engraved portrait of Menestrier, 2 folding plates, 4 lithographic facsimile letters (2 folding). Contemporary red morocco gilt by Martin, covers with triple-fillet border, spine in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second and third, the others with elaborate repeat decoration in gilt with cornerpieces of stylized flowers and foliage surrounding a large central pomegranate spray, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt (small splits to joints). Provenance: A R (of Lyons, bookplate).
A fine copy of the first edition of this biography of the famous historian and bibliographer of the Jesuits.
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A fine copy of the first edition of this biography of the famous historian and bibliographer of the Jesuits.