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Histoire des ordres monastiques' religeux et militaires, et des congregations seculiers de l'un & de l'autre sexe, qui ont este establies jusqu' a present. Tome second
by Helyot, Pierre
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Paris: Chez Jean Baptiste Coignard, 1714. First edition. Leather Bound. Very Good. 7 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches. 436 numbered pages + 16 leaf index + 119 full page copperplate engravings. Marbled endpapers. Title page in black and red. All edges rouged. Pages and engravings are clean and bright. Bound in contemporary full calf with five gilt and raised bands and extensive decoration to the five compartments of the spine and a red spine label with gilt title to one compartment. Wear to the spine and to the edges, a little more to the top edge of the front board. Spine a little weak around page 202 with some loosening of a few leaves. An excellent copy of the self-contained second volume of Helyot's important work on the history, habits and dress of the religious and knightly orders up to the early 18th Century. Highly illustrated with 119 engravings depicting the habits of more than 100 of the most notable religious and knightly orders (male and female) up to that time, including St. Sepulcre, St. Victor, Norbertines, and various Hospitallers, Knights and Orders in England and Ireland.
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- Title
- Histoire des ordres monastiques' religeux et militaires, et des congregations seculiers de l'un & de l'autre sexe, qui ont este establies jusqu' a present. Tome second
- Author
- Helyot, Pierre
- Format/Binding
- Leather Bound
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Chez Jean Baptiste Coignard
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1714
- Keywords
- monks nuns monastics illustrated England Ireland 18th
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St. Wulfstan's specializes in antiquarian religious books, especially Bibles, Prayer Books, and other texts in the Catholic, Anglican, Episcopal or Presbyterian traditions. We are known for our extensive inventory of liturgical texts (such as the Book of Common Prayer) and related books.The inventory ranges from historically significant and very rare texts to affordable copies of prayer books from the U.S. and Great Britain.
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