Author: Chocarne, B.
Title: Le R.P. H.-D. Lacordaire de l'ordre des frères prêcheurs, sa vie intime et religieuse. Deuxième édition, corrigée et augmentée. (2 volumes).
Description: Paris, Poussuelgue et fils, 1866 (for both volumes). Complete in 2 volumes: xxv, 400 pp.; 408 pp. Later blindruled cloth with gilt lettered title on spine. 8vo 14x21cm. With engraved portrait frontispiece of Lacordaire in volume 1 by Bonnassieux after A. Martinet. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. The first edition had appeared in 1 volume the same year and as a standard biography it saw many reprints upto 1923. Contains in volume I the years 1802-1841: Enfance de Henri Lacordaire, Sa vie au seminaire, Noviciat au couvent de la Quercia, etc. Volume Ii deals with the years 1841-1861: Stations de Bordeaux et de Nancy, Sa vie au couvent, ses vertus, son amour de la Croix, fondation de Flavigny, etc.). text in French. Name on french title, covers bit worn, spine sunned with ticket else very good, solid and clean with hardly any foxing.

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