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Imprimé à Perpignan, et se vend à Bordeauz, chez Raymond Brun, 1695. 12mo. 6 leaves. 492 pages. Full brown calfskin, decorated ribbed spine (contemporary binding). First Edition, printed in Perpignan, of this extremely rare abridged French version of Maria de Agreda's famous 'Mystical City of God', one of the most representative spiritual works of 17th century Baroque Spain. The second French version after the (equally rare) translation by Thomas Crozet printed in Marseilles in 1685, this adaptation translated and arranged by Pierre Grenier, King's Counsellor and Procurator at the Bureau of Finance in Guyenne, had been printed in Perpignan to be sold in Bordeaux with the approval of the doctors of the University of Toulouse. This unusual editorial circuit is probably explained by the ban imposed at the time on the book, issued by the Sorbonne on the recommendation of Bossuet following the censorship pronounced by the Spanish Inquisition, and which caused the confrontation of various sectors of the… Read More

Paris, chez Barba, 1809. 2 volumes, 12mo. 2 leaves. 239 pages. 1 leaf. + 2 leaves. 191 pages. (i.e. 195). Half calfskin, smooth spine decorated (period binding). First Edition. First novel by musician, actress and woman of letters Julie Candeille (1767-1834), who was one of the great female celebrities of the performing arts and letters of her time. Produced on stage from an early age by her musician parents, she was quickly put in touch with the fashionable Paris of the Ancien Régime and took her first steps on the stage with mixed success, despite her unanimously celebrated beauty. It was after the advent of the French Revolution, to which she was favourable, that she obtained her greatest successes. A friend of Olympe de Gouges, she played the role of Mirza in the latter's play about the denunciation of slavery. The present book, which is her first novel, describing the "failed marriages" of a young beauty, is interesting in several respects. On the one hand, it paints a particularly interesting… Read More