Lot 291
  • 291

Religious works in English

Estimate
500 - 700 GBP
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Description

  • A collection of 4 volumes, comprising:
  • paper
FRANÇOIS DE SALES, Saint. A treatise of the loue of God. Written in French... translated into English by Miles Car priest… Douai: Gerard Pinchon, 1630, 8vo, additional engraved title, engraved portrait of the author, contemporary calf, [STC 11323; Allison & Rogers 647], binding very worn and rubbed, upper cover detached, leaves browned and stained
PIERCE, Thomas. The Christians Rescue from the Grand Error of the Heathen… London: J.G. for Richard Royston, 1658, 4to, old calf, binding defective
BLOIS, Louis de. Seven Exercises or Meditations by which a man may be, in a short time, established in the fear of God… London: M. Turner, 1686, 24mo, later morocco, soiled
WILLIAMS, Isaac. Some Meditations and Prayers selected from the Way of Eternal Life… Oxford: John Henry Parker, 1845, 8vo, half morocco

Provenance

William O’Brien, bequest booklabels dated 1899

Condition

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