Meditations Seconde Annee, First Edition (3 results)

Klein-8°. 15,5 x 9,5 cm. Gestochenes Frontispiz, Titelblkatt mit Druckermarke, [6] Blatt, 430 Seiten, 1 Blatt. 4 Blatt Kupferstiche. Brauner Ganzlederband der Zeit mit goldgeprägtem Rückentitel, floralem Buchschmuck. Erste Ausgabe. Französischsprachige Ausgabe. Mit insgesamt 5 Kupfern auf Tafeln. Einband wenig berieben, bestoßen, Ecken stärker, dadurch winzige Fehlstellen im Ledrbezug, Name auf Vorsatz. Gutes bis (vor allem innen) sehr gutes Exemplar. First edition. French-language edition. With a total of 5 coppers. Brown full leather binding of the time with gold-embossed title on the back, floral book decoration. Binding a little rubbed, bumped, corners stronger, thus tiny blemishes in the leather cover, name on endpaper. Good to (especially inside) very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good-. First Edition. 8vo. 558; 588pp. Two volumes. Brown leather, gilt lettering and decoration on spine, marbled endpapers, spine gives title as "Oeuvres de P. Nouet". Part I: Spine and covers rubbed and bumped, corners and top of spine reinforced with tape, cracking along hinges, hinges tender, tape reinforcement to outer corners of front pastedown, pastedowns and endpapers damp marked, ffep partially detached, ink signature on title page, rear fep partially detached; Part II: Spine and covers rubbed and bumped, cracking along front hinge, hinges tender, pastedowns and rear fep damp stained, ffep missing, ink signature on title page. Book.

First Edition. Manuscript on paper, 8vo, pp.[xii], 596, [4 (blank)]; early eighteenth-century French hand, brown ink, approximately 18 lines to a page, running titles, contemporary pagination; a very good specimen in contemporary vellum, leather ties; binding a little shaken and worn, ties perished.Apparently unpublished set of meditations for the Sundays in the liturgical year running from the seventh to the twenty-fourth week after Pentecost, shedding light on tools and practices in the homiletic art. Themes range from reflections on the Eucharist, to considerations on mortality, on values, on grace, and on the human capacity for redemption. The meditations are often prompted by the Gospel reading of the day, lending strength to the notion that this book served as a cleric's personal tool for delivering semi-impromptu homilies: an aide-memoire, a structured repertoire of themes and examples made more convenient by a detailed table of contents. Language: French.