Meditations pour les Retraites sur les Devoirs des Religieuses et de celles qui instruisent les jeunes filles

  • Paris: Ch. Jean-Bapt. Delespine, 1742
By [Ursulines]
Paris: Ch. Jean-Bapt. Delespine, 1742. Very Good. Paris: Chez Ch. Jean-Bapt. Delespine, Imp. Lib. ord. du Roy, rue S. Jacques, à la Victoire & au Palmier, 1742. 12mo; full contemporary calf, gilt-tooled spine with repeating floral and pinecone motifs, brown gilt-lettered spine label, marbled endpapers; [18],516,[14]pp.; woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces. Ex-Congregation de Notre Dame de Verdun with their 19th-century rubber-stamps to title page, leather a bit scuffed with brief exposure at top corner of upper cover, bottom inch of title page neatly excised, later (1809) ownership inscription of Mlle. Le Fort to front free endpaper verso, else Very Good and sound.

Evidently unrecorded edition of this guide to meditations for Ursuline nuns and educators of young girls attributed simply to "une Superieure des Ursulines de Montargis, de la Congrégation de Paris."

No copies of this edition located in the trade, OCLC, Library Hub, or KVK as of April, 2025, though the BM Lyon finds a copy published by De Hansy.

Details

Title

Meditations pour les Retraites sur les Devoirs des Religieuses et de celles qui instruisent les jeunes filles

Author

[Ursulines]

Condition

Very Good

Publisher

Ch. Jean-Bapt. Delespine: Paris

Date

1742


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