Dissertation Historique Hosties Miraculeuses Quon by Navez François Joseph (3 results)

8vo. First edition. xvi, 149 (1). Frontis, plate of the Virgin Mary, folding plate plus two facsimile leaves of early documents to rear. Five plates in all. Edges uncut. wide margins, half title present (somewhat dusty) later buckram, bookplate of The Writers Library, W1. Rather an unusual volume in (other than the later binding) unsophisticated condition.

Bruxelles, chez Lemaire, M. DCC. XC. (1790). 20,5 x 13,5 cm, xvi - 150 pp. et une planche dépliante en frontispice (vue de la cathédrale de Bruxelles par Richard Cooper), 2 planches hors texte et un fine deux fac-similés de documents anciens, dont un dépliant. Relié demi-basane noire, dos lisse, titre doré. Mouillures angulaires sans gravité sur les fac-similés, sinon bel exemplaire, planches très fraîches. Livres.

Condition: Bon exemplaire. xvj-149-[3] pp. 2. [2]-x-260-[6] pp., 2 ouvrages en 1 vol., 1. Treatise on the Brussels anti-Jewish medieval legend of the "Miraculous Sacrament" (1370). Engr. ills : frontisp., folding view of Brussels Cathedral by Richard Cooper, 3 pl. (2 folding) with facs. of old documents. Name on front endpaper "J.G. Smolderen". Ref. Opac KBR (2). 2. Defense of the Immaculate Conception of the Holy Virgin by J.A. Salmon, parish priest of Moregem, against the opinion of the Louvain theologian Marant. Ref. Bibl. gant. nr. 5905. Not in Bibl. Mariana Lovan. * Reliure demi cuir du temps, plats marbrées , dos à 5 nerfs, ornées de filets, caissons et titre dorées.