Author: FRANCOIS, MONSEIGNEUR, DUC DE FITZ-JAMES, EVEQUE DE SOISSONS
Title: Instructions Pour Les Dimanches Et Fetes de L'Annee, Qui Font la Troisieme Partie Du Rituel de Soissons (Tome Second)
Description: Soissons: Chez Ponce Courtois, 1755. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Hard Cover. Volume II only. Contemporary full leather, spine in six compartments separated by five raised bands, gilt lettering on red labels in two compartments, gilt tooling in the rest, marbled endpapers, all edges red. Francois de Fitz-James (1709-1764) succeeded as the third Duc de Fitz-James and Pair de France, 1721; entered the clerical state, 1727; commendatory abbot of Saint-Victor de Paris, 1728; ordained priest, 1733; Doctor of the Faculty of Theology of Paris, 1734; resigned the peerage, 1736; commendatory abbot of Bocherville, 1738; appointed Bishop of Soissons, 1738; confirmed as Bishop of Soissons, May 4, 1739; ordained bishop May 31, 1739. IN FRENCH.. Front hinge starting, unmarked, pages supple. VERY GOOD. 16mo 6" - 7" tall. 568 pp. Very Good with no dust jacket .

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