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Petit Missel Romain (No. 17); Contenant l'Ordinaire de la Messe, la Messe de Mariage, et la Messe des Morts
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Scattered foxing to text, otherwise very near fine in very good slipcase, with light rubbing to corners.
- Seller
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Asheville, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Tours: Alfred Mame et Fils, 1888. First Thus. Hardcover. Scattered foxing to text, otherwise very near fine in very good slipcase, with light rubbing to corners.. 48mo. Approx. 2.5 x 4.5 in. 64 pp. Full maroon calf, stamped in blind with cross & vine motif on both covers, titled in gilt on spine, all edges gilt, with decorative endpapers; in black pebbled slipcase. Includes the ordinary of the mass, the nuptial mass, and the mass of the dead. Illustrated with exquisite black & white vignettes, and frontispiece. Title page printed in red and black; red rules beneath headlines and red capitals. Text in French and Latin. An exceedingly fresh copy, with bright gilt titling, of a beautifully printed 19th-century French missal.
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- Bookseller
- Irving Book Company
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 75
- Title
- Petit Missel Romain (No. 17); Contenant l'Ordinaire de la Messe, la Messe de Mariage, et la Messe des Morts
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Scattered foxing to text, otherwise very near fine in very good slipcase, with light rubbing to corners.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus
- Publisher
- Alfred Mame et Fils
- Place of Publication
- Tours
- Date Published
- 1888
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Irving Book Company
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Asheville, North Carolina
About Irving Book Company
Classical, Catholic, Southern, Photographic, Poetic, Scholarly, and early Modern Library Editions, &c.
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- Gilt
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- Calf
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- Pebbled
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- Spine
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