Recherches sur la vie et sur les oeuvres du P. Claude-François Menestrier de la Compagnie de Jésus.
Lyon: N. Scheuring, 1866.
Price: $750.00
About the item
First edition. Title printed in red and black with vignette, engraved portrait of Menestrier, 2 folding plates, 4 lithographic facsimile letters (2 folding). 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary full red morocco, covers with triple gilt fillet borders, spine gilt in 6 compartments, lettered in two, richly gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, t.e.g. Small crack at head of upper joint, otherwise a fine copy, with the small woodcut bookplate of "A.R." of Lyon.
Item #223193
Beautiful copy of this bio-bibliography of the Lyonese historian, composer, Jesuit, and author of tournament books and the classic history of ballet, Des ballets anciens a modernes (1682).
