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PAUL RAGUENEAU (1608-1680)
La Vie de la Mère Catherine de Saint Augustin, religieuse hospitalière de la Misericorde de Quebec en la Nouvelle-France. Paris: Florentin Lambert, 1671. 8° (171 x 106mm). Extra illustrated with folding engraved portrait. (Lacking engraved frontispiece, portrait laid down with two closed tears, some heavy staining and browning.) 19th-century roan-backed marbled boards (extremities rubbed). Provenance: Bibliothèque des Religieuses filles de Notre Dame de Poitiers – [?] Ernest Gagnon (1834-191; pencil note on front pastedown states ‘Gagnon copy, lacks folding plate’). RARE FIRST EDITION. Ragueneau's life of the great mystic of the Hôtel-Dieu at Quebec, Catherine Simon de Longpré dite de Saint-Augustin, became 'a document of the utmost importance in the cause of beatification' (DCB). Sabin 67499.
PERRAULT, Joseph-François. Manuel pratique de l’école elementaire françoise. Quebec: 1829. 16° (123 x 79mm). Folding engraved frontispiece. (Frontispiece with repairs to folds front and back. Contemporary half roan over blue boards. Provenance: Theresa Bender, Quebec, 1832 (inscription on front pastedown) – Alb[ert] Bender (inscription on rear free endpaper). On the past, present and future state of education in Lower Canada.
With 5 legislative works in 4 volumes, all important examples of early Quebec printing: François Joseph Cugnet, Traité de la Loi des Fiefs (Quebec, 1775), bound as issued with: Traite´ abrege´ des ancienes loix, coutumes et usages de la colonie du Canada, aujourd'huy province de Que´bec (Quebec, 1775), in 19th-century half calf. A third part,Traité de la Police, was also issued. Sabin 17853 and 17854; Lande 166; Tremaine 197 and 198; TPL 461, 460; Jean François Hubert, Mandement de Monseigneur l’Évêque de Quebec touchant la jurisdiction des prêtres de son diocese. 4°, 8pp. ([Quebec: 1788]). Tremaine 556, locating 4 copies; the same author’s Mandement de Monseigneur l’Évêque de Quebec qui permit de travailler à certains jours de fêtes. 4°, pp. 9-15 ([Quebec, 1791]). Tremaine 707, locating 6 copies. Both pamphlets disbound; P.A. de Bonne, Pre´cis ou Abre´ge´ d'un acte qui pourvoit a' la surete´ du Bas-Canada : passe´e le 3eme may, dans la trente-quatrie'me anne´e du re'gne de Sa Majeste´. 4° (Quebec: [1794?]). Tremaine 873.
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