"Red Morocco Of The House Of Joinville", Louis d'Orléans" Carême De Massillon. In 12 Of 1745"
A fine copy in 12mo format, part of the Works of Massillon, "Carême" volume 3, in red morocco, spine decorated with beautiful gilt iron in the boxes, titles and volume numbers in green morocco, triple frame on the covers, marbled guards, edges gilded in bright gold, bookplate with crowned arms: "De Joinville" (Louis d'Orléans from 1723 to 1752). Sermons by Mr. Massillon, Bishop of Clermont, formerly Priest of the Oratory, one of the Forty of the French Academy. Carême, volume three; in Paris, rue Saint Jacques at the Veuve Estienne & Fils, at laVertu & Jean Hérissant, at S. Paul & at S. Hilaire. M. DCC. XLVI. (1746). Not only a book rich in teaching by the "Greatest" of Preachers and Man of Letters