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Ernest Renan Vie de Jesus 1863 1st Edition

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Title: Vie de Jesus
Author: Renan, Ernest
Description: [4], lix, 402, [1] pp. (8vo) 8¾x5½, later calf-backed mottled boards. First Edition.The Life of Jesus "had an immediate and resounding success both at home and abroad. In six months sixty thousand copies of the French edition had been sold and edition succeeded edition...Renan's theory of history was based on personalities, and in reconstructing it he endeavoured always to penetrate and to expound the psychology of the leading characters." - Printing and The Mind of Man, 352. Renan's bookplate tipped to front free endpaper.
Heading: zzkPlace Published: Paris
Publisher: Michel Levy Freres
Date Published: 1863

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