Maimbourg's History of the Crusades 1682
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Author: Maimbourg, Louis, editor
Title: Histoire des Croisades pour la Delivrance de la Terre Sainte.
Place Published: Paris
Publisher:Sebastian Mabre-Cramoisy
Date Published: [1682]
Description:
Author: Maimbourg, Louis, editor
Title: Histoire des Croisades pour la Delivrance de la Terre Sainte.
Place Published: Paris
Publisher:Sebastian Mabre-Cramoisy
Date Published: [1682]
Description:
4 volumes. With woodcut publisher's device on title pages, extra illustrated title page in volume 3, and floriated initials throughout. 13x7.5 cm (5x3"), full period vellum, spines numbered in ink. Second Edition.
Among the more significant works of this prolific author and French church historian. Expelled from the Society of Jesus in 1681 by Pope Innocent XI, the Catholic Encyclopedia describes Maimbourg's writings as "remarkable for their elegant diction, are of little value, because somewhat untrustworthy." Bookplates of Edith L. Dohrmann on front pastedowns, ink signatures of previous owner on title pages.
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Light wear and soiling to vellum, some bowing to boards and bumping to corners; pages foxed, edges of some blank leaves clipped; very good.
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