Bibliotheca Rhetorum Praecepta & Exempla Complectens qua tam ad Oratoriam Facultatem, quam ad Poeticam Pertinent. Discipulis pariter Magistris Perutilis. Editio Sexta. [A Compendious Library of Rhetorical Precepts & Examples Pertaining Both to the Oratorical Faculty and to Poetry. Useful for Students as well as Teachers. Sixth Edition.]

Gabriel Francois Le Jay

Published by Sumptibus Ioan Franc. Xav., Bibliopolae Academici, Monachii & Ingolstadii [Munich & Ingolstadt], 1765

About this Item

Fair; full leather covers & spine worn, well rubbed and bumped; hinges cracked but still fully functional; small paper label stuck to front cover; foxing/tanning in varying degrees to all pages; gift inscription to flyleaf; some pages have marginal notes in pencil and/or a single word (rarely a sentence) underlined in pencil. In its time, a standard work in Latin Rhetoric. Five "books" bound as one; 6.5x4 inches; [xxvi], 494, [xviii] pp. First published in Paris in 1725. Gabriel Francois Le Jay (1657 - 1734) was a French Jesuit who taught rhetoric for more than thirty years in various colleges in Paris, notably at Louis-le-Grand, where he had Voltaire as a student.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Bibliotheca Rhetorum Praecepta & Exempla Complectens qua tam ad Oratoriam Facultatem, quam ad Poeticam Pertinent. Discipulis pariter Magistris Perutilis. Editio Sexta. [A Compendious Library of Rhetorical Precepts & Examples Pertaining Both to the Oratorical Faculty and to Poetry. Useful for Students as well as Teachers. Sixth Edition.]
• Publisher: Sumptibus Ioan Franc. Xav., Bibliopolae Academici, Monachii & Ingolstadii [Munich & Ingolstadt]
• Publication Date: 1765
• Binding: Full-Leather
• Condition: Fair
• Book Type: Book
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