Author: Bossuet, Jacques Benigne
Title: Oraison Funebre de Tres-Haute Et Tres-Puissante Princesse Anne de Gonzague de Cleves, Princesse Palatine. Prononcee En Presence de Monseigneur le Duc, de Madame la Duchesse, & de Monseigneur le Duc de Bourbon, Dans L'Eglise Des Carmelites Du Fauxbourg Saint Jacques, le 9. Aoust 1685. Par Messire Jacques Benigne Bossuet, Evesque de Meaux, Conseiller Du Roy En Ses Conseils, Cy-Devant Precepteur de Monseigneur le Dauphin, Premier Aumosnier de Madame la Dauphine
Description: (Paris: Les Bibliolatres de France, 1943). 1943). (Paris: Les Bibliolatres de France, 1943). 1943). Very good. - Large octavo [11-1/4 inches high by 7-3/4 inches wide]. 7 signatures are laid into printed gray wraps with a vignette of a printing press on the front wrap. The wraps are lightly bumped with a short tear to the bottom corner of the front wrap & a tiny stain to the rear wrap. There is a small piece out of the tail of the spine. 42 pages plus colophon, partially unopened. Illustrated in brown & cream with a portrait frontispiece, a title vignette & a head-piece & tail-piece by J. Pheulpin. Very good.

Reprinted from the original 1685 edition. The text is in French. Very good .

Keywords: HISTORY; FRANCE; FUNERAL ORATION; ORAISON FUNEBRE DE TRES-HAUTE ET TRES-PUISSANTE PRINCESSE ANNE DE GONZAGUE DE CLEVES, PRINCESSE PALATINE; SEVENTEENTH CENTURY; 17TH CENTURY; JACQUES BENIGNE BOSSUET; PORTRAIT FRONTISPIECE; J. PHEULPHIN.

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