Ratio discendi et docendi
Paris: J. Barbou, 1778. Very Good. Item #9845
Paris: J. Barbou, 1778. 16mo (6.25" x 3.25"); 234pp +5 index. Contemporary speckled calf with gilt tooling and red leather title label to spine. Marbled endpapers, with speckled red edgestain. Boards corner- and edgeworn with some cracking starting to joints, a small, old label sticker to front, and some general smudging and spotting. Stamp-sized bookplate on front pastedown. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.
1778 edition of Jouvency's Magistris scholarum inferiorum Societatis Jesu de ratione discendi et docendi, first published in Florence in 1703 and evolved from an earlier text from 1691, which became a standard guide for classical studies.
Price: $70.00