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Title: Institutiones Philosophiae Moralis, in Usum Praelectionum Adornatae
Description: Fribourg, Switzerland, n.p. 1842. Hardcover. 8vo. Quarter green calf with gilt spine lettering/rules and marbled paper over boards. 174pp, (2pp). Very good. Binding a bit edgeworn and scuffed, else tight and internally near fine; small Wisconsin convent name inkstamped at bottom of title page. Intriguing, cryptic and strange production, entirely in Latin but for one French paragraph citing Jean-Jacques Rousseau, of this moral philosophy text whose title translates roughly (VERY roughly!) as "Institutions of moral philosophy in the use of illustrated lectures." Interesting, too, is the typesetting, for the complete text consists of lithographic plates giving the appearance of two different cursive handwritings. An 1843 edition with differently typeset title page cites "Franc. Rothenflue, S.J." as author and "Joseph Lud. Piller" as publisher" -- neither of which this cryptic edition does. An early owner has extra-illustrated this copy, affixing a number of fascinating and bizarre newsprint graphics to both endpapers, one facing the title page as if a frontispiece. This owner even continued a couple of these graphics in ink and pencil to extend them beyond their edges onto the endpaper. One delightful example on rear flyleaf consists of a printed sepia-tone architectural border with cutout oval opening in which an original watercolor appears, a well-done head-and-shoulders closeup of a pipe-smoking gent wearing funny pointed cap with arms resting on table in front him and wine bottle and glass of wine evident -- below this the title "Un Quietiste" (calm person?) has been inked. .
Keywords: Philosophy
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Title: Institutiones Philosophiae Moralis, in Usum Praelectionum Adornatae
Description: Fribourg, Switzerland, n.p. 1842. Hardcover. 8vo. Quarter green calf with gilt spine lettering/rules and marbled paper over boards. 174pp, (2pp). Very good. Binding a bit edgeworn and scuffed, else tight and internally near fine; small Wisconsin convent name inkstamped at bottom of title page. Intriguing, cryptic and strange production, entirely in Latin but for one French paragraph citing Jean-Jacques Rousseau, of this moral philosophy text whose title translates roughly (VERY roughly!) as "Institutions of moral philosophy in the use of illustrated lectures." Interesting, too, is the typesetting, for the complete text consists of lithographic plates giving the appearance of two different cursive handwritings. An 1843 edition with differently typeset title page cites "Franc. Rothenflue, S.J." as author and "Joseph Lud. Piller" as publisher" -- neither of which this cryptic edition does. An early owner has extra-illustrated this copy, affixing a number of fascinating and bizarre newsprint graphics to both endpapers, one facing the title page as if a frontispiece. This owner even continued a couple of these graphics in ink and pencil to extend them beyond their edges onto the endpaper. One delightful example on rear flyleaf consists of a printed sepia-tone architectural border with cutout oval opening in which an original watercolor appears, a well-done head-and-shoulders closeup of a pipe-smoking gent wearing funny pointed cap with arms resting on table in front him and wine bottle and glass of wine evident -- below this the title "Un Quietiste" (calm person?) has been inked. .
Keywords: Philosophy
Price: US$ 200.00 Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts
- Book number: 50619
- Book number: 50619
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