Vie de Jesus
by RENAN, Ernest
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- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
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- Condition
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Paris: Michel Lévy Frères, 1863. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. The Historical Christ (PMM 352)
RENAN, Ernest, Vie de Jesus, Michel Lévy Frères, Paris, 1863. 1 blank leaf (with tipped-in signed letter from Renan on recto and picture of Jesus on verso) + half-title + TP + 1 leaf = A Lame Pure + [iii] - lix = Introduction + [1] - 459 + [461] - 462 = Table des Matieres + 1 leaf, Octavo, SIGNED First Edition. PMM 352
Renans theory of history was baed on personalities, and in reconstructing it he endeavored always to penetrate and to expound the psychology of the leading characters. Indeed, in 1845 he wrote, but never published, an essay on the psychology of Jesus; and in Life he created what remains a figure of his own imagination. It is a pastoral idyll with the central figure a gentle, albeit oracular visionary, his power to work miracles a part of his unique personalitythe son of man, but not the Son of a God (PMM).
PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 352
CONDITION: Very good or better in contemporary half-leather with marbled boards. Rich gilt along spine. Decorative endpapers. Includes a full page handwritten letter from Ernest Renan, signed, dated 1859, tipped in to recto of front free endpaper. A picture of Jesus preaching is tipped in on verso of front free endpaper.
PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST
RENAN, Ernest, Vie de Jesus, Michel Lévy Frères, Paris, 1863. 1 blank leaf (with tipped-in signed letter from Renan on recto and picture of Jesus on verso) + half-title + TP + 1 leaf = A Lame Pure + [iii] - lix = Introduction + [1] - 459 + [461] - 462 = Table des Matieres + 1 leaf, Octavo, SIGNED First Edition. PMM 352
Renans theory of history was baed on personalities, and in reconstructing it he endeavored always to penetrate and to expound the psychology of the leading characters. Indeed, in 1845 he wrote, but never published, an essay on the psychology of Jesus; and in Life he created what remains a figure of his own imagination. It is a pastoral idyll with the central figure a gentle, albeit oracular visionary, his power to work miracles a part of his unique personalitythe son of man, but not the Son of a God (PMM).
PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 352
CONDITION: Very good or better in contemporary half-leather with marbled boards. Rich gilt along spine. Decorative endpapers. Includes a full page handwritten letter from Ernest Renan, signed, dated 1859, tipped in to recto of front free endpaper. A picture of Jesus preaching is tipped in on verso of front free endpaper.
PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST
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- Bookseller
- Eternal Return Antiquarian Bookshop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 690
- Title
- Vie de Jesus
- Author
- RENAN, Ernest
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Michel Lévy Frères
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1863
- Keywords
- religion, philosophy, history, PMM
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