Geoffrey Vallée: 'La Beatitude des Chretiens'

Scope and Content

(p. i) title-page; (p. iii) note on the history of the copy from which the transcript was made, which had been in the library of Victor Marie Maréchal & Duc d'Estrées (+1737) and sold in 1740 by Boudot & Guénin, booksellers of Paris, the only extant copy of the original edition; (p. 1) text; (p. 15) further notes on the copy from which the transcript was made, and upon the author. Reprinted c. 1770. Bound with a copy of L. V. Vougny, Le Ciel réformé, being a translation of Giordano Bruno's Spaccio del la Bestia trionfante (?Paris, 1750), on the title-page of which is the stamp of Mark Pattison, Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford (+1884).

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Acquisition Information

Purchased 1906.

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