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MEMORIALS OF HUMAN SUPERSTITION; BEING A PARAPHRASE AND COMMENTARY ON THE HISTORIA FLAGELLANTIUM OF THE ABBÃ BOILEAU, DOCTOR OF THE SORBONNE, CANON OF THE HOLY CHAPEL, &c. "By One Who is Not a Doctor of the Sorbonne."
by [De Lolme, Jean Louis]
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- Hardcover
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New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
London: Printed for G. Robinson, 1784.. 426pp. (last page misnumbered '226'). Octavo. Handsome three-quarter mottled calf and marbled boards. Some browning at top edge in the gutter of last several leaves, some offsetting from the engraving at the top of p. [17], plates from opposite p. 126 bound as frontis, small private ownership stamp on verso of front endsheet, otherwise very good. A reissue, under modified title, of the 1783 second edition of THE HISTORY OF THE FLAGELLANTS, OR THE ADVANTAGES OF DISCIPLINE, first published in English in 1777 (or 1776). ESTC T143697.
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- William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-ILAB
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- Title
- MEMORIALS OF HUMAN SUPERSTITION; BEING A PARAPHRASE AND COMMENTARY ON THE HISTORIA FLAGELLANTIUM OF THE ABBÃ BOILEAU, DOCTOR OF THE SORBONNE, CANON OF THE HOLY CHAPEL, &c. "By One Who is Not a Doctor of the Sorbonne."
- Author
- [De Lolme, Jean Louis]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Printed for G. Robinson
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1784.
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William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-ILAB
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New Haven, Connecticut
About William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-ILAB
Since 1975, William Reese Company has served a large international clientele of collectors and private and public institutions in the acquisition of rare books and manuscripts and in collection development.
With a catalogued inventory of over thirty thousand items, and a general inventory of over sixty-five thousand items, we are among the leading specialists in the fields of Americana and world travel, and maintain a large and eclectic inventory of literary first editions and antiquarian books of the 18th through 20th centuries.
We issue frequent, and substantial, catalogues in our fields of specialization.
With a catalogued inventory of over thirty thousand items, and a general inventory of over sixty-five thousand items, we are among the leading specialists in the fields of Americana and world travel, and maintain a large and eclectic inventory of literary first editions and antiquarian books of the 18th through 20th centuries.
We issue frequent, and substantial, catalogues in our fields of specialization.
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- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Marbled boards
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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