- Frontisp. w. some offsetting; occas. sl. stained. Binding trifle rubbed. Otherwise fine.
= Rare. This French Bible translation by the Jansenist Solitaires of Port-Royal was both celebrated and criticised (for its alleged latent Protestantism and therefore censured) in France. Willems 1389; Rahir 3387. "Édition originale de cette célèbre traduction, connue sous le nom de Nouveau Testament de Mons; elle est fort belle et sort positivement des presses de Daniel Elzevier." (Willems).
(Treuvé, S.-M.). Le directeur spirituel pour ceux qui n'en ont point. Paris, E. Josset, 1692(?), new ed., (24),408p., contemp. gilt calf.
- Title-p. erroneously w. "M. DCICII". Lacks free endpapers; sl. later annot. in pen and ink on upper pastedown; title-p. lacks sm. blank portion; occas. sl. stained/ soiled/ dogeared. Binding sl. worn; lacks letterpiece.
= Rare. Copy of the often reprinted Christian directory by the French Jansenist theologian Simon-Michel Treuvé (1651-1730). Cf. Quérard IX, p.550.
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