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18301007N20London: J. Nisbet 1830. Hardback. Very Good. 9" by 5.5". J.W. Giles. The scarce presentation copy of Rutton Morris's translation of the Bishop of Clermont's profound moral sermons signed by Morris rebacked in velvet. A scarce translated edition of Select Sermons from Jean Baptiste Massillon Bishop of Clermont the presentation copy translated and signed by clergyman and translator Rutton Morris. Privately printed for Morris and sold by J. Nsibet in 1830.Rebacked with velvet boards and with brassed edges and clip. Contains a frontispiece of Massillon drawn by British artist John West Giles and with Morris's signed inscription to the blank before.A popular French preacher Massillon was praised by the Encyclopaedists for his eloquence and was also respected for his sensitive treatment to moral subjects with these sermons delving into righteousness and judgement. Morris translated French works by Lhomond and was a clergyman at Hockliffe in Bedfordshire. In the publisher's original cloth rebacked with velvet boards and with brassed edges and clip. Externally mostly smart with the odd fading patch to velvet. Bumping to the head and tail of the spine with a minor lift to head. Slight rubbing to brass decoration edges and clip. Marble end papers are bright and clean. Bookseller's stamp to rear pastedown. Internally firmly bound. Pages are mostly bright and clean with spotting to blanks frontispiece and title leaf. Very Good J. Nisbet hardcover
182233802Lille: L. Lefort 1822. 12 volumes. Half leather gilt lettering spine; 17x11 cm. French - monastic library stamp sl. worn few pages sl. dam. Although very good set. See picture. ¶ Contents. 1: Sermons pour l'avent. xxii2452 pp.; frontisp. 2-4: Sermons pour le Carême. iv5902 pp. iv5822 pp. iv652ii pp. 5: Mystères. iv412ii pp. 6: Panégyriques. iv3902 pp. 7: Oraisons funèbres et professions religieuses. iv4362 pp. 8-9: Conférences et discours synodaux sur les principaux devoirs des ecclésiastiques instruction et mandemens. iv4482 pp. iv428 pp. 10: Paraphrase morale de plusieurs psaumes en forme de prière. iv472 pp. 11: Petit Carême. iv300 pp. 12: Morceaux choisis. iv430 pp. L. Lefort hardcover
1822861N53Paris: Dalibon 1822. Leather. Very Good. 8.5" by 5". None. A collection of Lent sermons by the popular seventeenth century Catholic preacher Jean-Baptiste Massillon. Published in French. A collection of sermons for Lent by the popular French Catholic preacher Jean-Baptiste Massillon. Published in French. This scarce volume contains a collection of sermons by the popular eighteenth century preacher Massillon. With little stress on dogmatic questions and a focus on moral subjects the Bishop of Clermont describes the difficulties and secrets of the human heart with poetical feeling. This collection of sermons are for the period of lent. The binding is signed by Thouvenin to the spine. Active during the French restoration Thouvenin is credited with raising the standards of French bookbinding after the revolution and is best remembered for his revival of a style of binding that came to be known as the Fanfare style. Prior owner's bookplate to the front pastedown. This volume is from St. Peter's and St. Paul's Library in Bath. In a full red calf binding. Externally sound. Rubbed to the boards less so to the spine. The front and rear joints are just beginning to crack Very Good Dalibon hardcover
1842TSStiMAS71Paris: Gavard 1842. 1842. 4to. pp. xliv 300 2 leaves. engraved portrait. title within wood-engraved border & numerous wood engravings in the text 1 full-page. contemporary blind & gilt-stamped chagrin gilt back all edges gilt gilt inside dentelles light wear to joints & extremities some foxing & browning. Vicaire V 587. Hardcover. Paris: Gavard, [1842]. Hardcover
1835001650Paris: Chez Lefevre 1835. Text in French. Two Volumes Complete. 768pp & 720pp. Quarter black morocco leather binding with lovely blue marbled boards. The spine has six raised bands compartmented with gilt tooled designs and gilt lettering. All edges sprinkled. General light self wear. Lovely yellow marbled endpages. Portrait frontispiece with blue tissue guard. Pages starting to lightly fox. Jean Baptiste Massillon June 24 1663 - September 28 1742 was a French churchman and preacher Bishop of Clermont from 1717 until his death. He was born at Hyères where his father was a royal notary. At the age of eighteen he joined the Congregation of the Oratory and taught for a time in the colleges of his order at Pézenas and Montbrison and at the Seminary of Vienne. On the death of Henri de Villars Archbishop of Vienne in 1693 he was commissioned to deliver a funeral oration and this was the beginning of his fame. In obedience to Cardinal de Noailles Archbishop of Paris he left the Cistercian abbey of Sept-Fonds to which he had retired and settled in Paris where he was placed at the head of the famous seminary of Saint Magloire. He soon gained a wide reputation as a preacher and was selected to be the Advent preacher at the court of Versailles in 1699. He was made Bishop of Clermont in 1717 and two years later was elected a member of the Académie française. The last years of his life were spent in the faithful discharge of his episcopal duties; his death took place at Clermont on September 18 1742. Massillon enjoyed in the 18th century a reputation equal to that of Bossuet and of Bourdaloue and has been much praised by Voltaire D'Alembert and kindred spirits among the Encyclopaedists. His popularity was probably due to the fact that in his sermons he lays little stress on dogmatic questions but treats generally of moral subjects in which the secrets of the human heart and the processes of man's reason are described with poetical feeling. He has usually been contrasted with his predecessor Bourdaloue the latter having the credit of vigorous denunciation Massillon that of gentle persuasiveness. Besides the Petit Carême a sermon which he delivered before the young king Louis XV in 1718 his sermons on the Prodigal Son on the small number of the elect on death for Christmas Day and for the Fourth Sunday in Advent may be perhaps cited as his masterpieces. His funeral oration on King Louis XIV is only noted now for the opening sentence: "Dieu seul est grand." But in truth Massillon is singularly free from inequality. His great literary power his reputation for benevolence and his known toleration and dislike of doctrinal disputes caused him to be much more favourably regarded than most churchmen by the philosophes of the 18th century. UncleAndy. Quarter Morocco Leather. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardcover. Chez Lefevre Hardcover
186748887Paris: Henri Plon 1867. Fine. Henri Plon Paris 1867 8.50 x 13.50 cm relié New edition. Full black morocco binding spine with five raised bands gilt roulettes on headcaps frame of gilt frieze on full red morocco doublures decorated with gilt fleur-de-lys pattern marbled endpapers double gilt fillets on edges all edges gilt superb contemporary full morocco binding with doublures signed by Masson-Debonelle. Very occasional light foxing. Handsome copy superbly bound in contemporary full morocco with doublures signed by Masson-Debonelle. Henri Plon hardcover
1809208059Paris: Renouard 1809. Premiere Edition. VG light foxing to frontis and title-page and most other pages. French contemporary full crimson straight-grain morocco panels with elaborate boarders with gilt bees in the four inner corners facing the Stylized gilt "N" with gilt crown over top of it edges of covers with fine hatchwork at corners and straight gilt lines between spine in 6 compartments with exquisite gilt tooling and gilt pointille tooling and radiating quadrant leaves the lower compartment with the binder name BEL. P. BOZERIAN JEUNE gilt Greek key borders inside gilt edges.Portrait of Massillon engraved by Augustin de Saint-Aubin. 390 pp. Text in French. An exquisite binding. A very similarly bound copy of this book bound by Bozerian sold at Anderson Galleries in 1939 in Part 4 of The Courtlandt Bishop Library. This copy has all indications of having been bound by Bozerian for Napoleon who was known as a voracious reader. Jean-Claude Bozérian and his younger brother François Bozérian were the leading binders of the First Empire and both worked for Napoleon. The elder Bozérian won the bookbinding medal of the Paris 1801 exhibition and was a busy publisher and bookseller as well. A manuscript invoice for binding work to Napoleon was sold at Christie's in 2005 for work that was performed in 1802. Renouard unknown
