La Vie de Saint Ignace, fondateur de la Compagnie de Jesus
Paris: Veuve Bordelet, 1758. Very Good. Item #30896
Paris: Chez la Veuve Bordelet, rue Saint Jacques, à Saint Ignace, 1758. First Veuve Bordelet Edition. 12mo (17cm.); full contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine in six compartments, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers; xix,[5],528pp. (collated complete); woodcut initials and decorative head- and tail-pieces throughout. Ex-Congregation de Notre Dame de Verdun with their 19th-century rubberstamps to title page, leather scuffed and rubbed at margins with exposure at corners, surface scratches to both boards, contemporary ownership inscriptions to front flyleaf recto and verso (bleeding through to the reverse, though not affecting title page). Nevertheless, a Very Good, quite attractive copy overall.
Popular hagiography of the Jesuit priest Saint Ignatius of Loyola. First published in 1682 the work went through many editions, this the first to be published by the Veuve Marie-Jeanne Bordelet whose Parisian publishing arm appears to have had a rather anemic but relatively varied output over the course of twenty years, specializing in Jesuit works and popular tragedies.
Price: $150.00