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Histoire Du Christianisme Des Indes
by Maturin Veyssiere La Croze
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- Hardcover
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La Haye : Chez les fre?res Vaillant & N. Prevost, 1724, 1724-01-01. Leather Bound. Very Good. La Haye: Chez les freres Vaillant & N. Prevost, 1724. French language. 12mo. [16], 570, [54] p., [3] leaves of plates: ill., fold. map. ; 16 cm. Fully bound in contemporary vellum. Tan Morocco spine label with gilt lettering. Tight binding and solid boards. Minor shelf wear. Slight toning to boards. Bumping to corners. Owners inscription inside front board. Oval stamp seal on title page. Otherwise, pages are clean and unmarked. Copper plate frontispiece illustration. Folding map at rear complete and undamaged.<br><br>Maturinus Veyssiere La Croze was a learned French Benedictine historian and orientalist, and later a Protestant convert. His works include Vindiciae veterum scriptorum contra J. Hardunium (1708), the Histoire du christianisme des Indes (1724), Histoire du Christianisme d'Ethiopie et d'Armenie (1739), and a Coptic-Latin dictionary. This volume is a history of the mission in India by Maturin Veyssiere La Croze. He discusses the ever-recurring question of whether St. Thomas introduced Christianity to India. La Croze, for one, was an opponent of this hypothesis.
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- Title
- Histoire Du Christianisme Des Indes
- Author
- Maturin Veyssiere La Croze
- Format/Binding
- Leather Bound
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- La Haye : Chez les fre?res Vaillant & N. Prevost, 1724
- Date Published
- 1724-01-01
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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- Shelf Wear
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- Morocco
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- 12mo
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- Vellum
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- Plate
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