Author: THOMAS A KEMPIS (1380-1471) / VALART, JOSEPH (1698-1781) .
Title: [ De imitatione Christi libri quatuor : ad octo manuscriptorum ac primarum editionum fidem castigati, & mendis plus sexcentis expurgati / ex recensione Josephi Valart, presb. Hesdinensis & Academici Ambianensis. ]
Description: [ Parisiis : typis J. Barbou via San-Jacobea 1758.] 0. Sold as a very good 18th century French binding. 12mo. 16.2cm x 9.7cm x 1.7cm. pp.iii - viii / pp.20/pp.327/[17pp. - Index] . Lacking title and first leaf. Contents include: Praefatio ad lectorem -- Dissertation sur l'auteur de l'Imitation -- Passages tire´s des livres de l'Imitation -- Errata -- Approbation -- Privile´ge du roi. -- De imitatione Christi -- Index -- Emendationum rationes -- Dictionariolum Ariolum.. Polished crimson calf with bright gilt border. Edges lightly rubbed and bumped. Smooth spine with gilt banding, gilt decoration and original tan leather title label: "De Imitat Christ". All page edges bright gilt. Inner gilt dentelles. Inner boards covered with green calf and thin gilt border. Paper library label laid-down to the verso of the front board: "Ex Legato Gulielmi O'Brien Justicanii An, 1899." Pencil note to front endpaper: "From Gibson Craig Collection Sotheby's 2591 in Cat. Bound by Deseuil. Title cf. [22]". Clean Latin text throughout. VG. ** William O'Brien (1832–1899) was an Irish judge. He is mainly remembered now for presiding at the trials which resulted from the Phoenix Park murders. He was also a noted bibliophile, who created one of Ireland's most valuable collections of antiquarian books.. From the 1880s, O'Brien amassed a large and valuable collection of antiquarian books, which he bequeathed on his death to the Irish province of the Jesuits, who put it up for auction in 2017. The collection includes a third folio of the Plays of William Shakespeare and a first edition of Gulliver's Travels.. *** Gibson Craig (1799-1886), was a notable Scottish antiquary and one of the original members of the Bannatyne Club, who during his long life befriended Sir Walter Scott, Sir Henry Raeburn, Macauley, David Laing, et al. His library, 9404 lots, realized £15,509.4.6, a very considerable sum more than a hundred years ago. The principal treasures were historic Scottish and French gold-tooled bindings. *** Augustin du Seuil (or, Duseuil), 1673-1746 - Parisian bookbinder who held the position of royal binder to Louis XV of France. ***** "Joseph Gérard Barbou (7 June 1723 - 1790) was the best known of the Barbou family of printers. Born into a famous family of booksellers and printers, originally from Lyon, Joseph Gérard Barbou had been a bookseller and printer in Paris since 1746.." - See Wikipedia.

Keywords: J. Barbou Via San-Jacobea Paris de Imitatione Christi Libri Quatuor Thomas a Kempis Valart, Joseph ( Bindings: : 18th Century


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