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BRIÈVE & FIDÈLE EXPOSITION DE L'ORIGINE, DE LA DOCTRINE, DES CONSTITUTIONS, USAGES ET CEREMONIES ECCLESIASTIQUES DE L'EGLISE DE L'UNITÉ DES FRERES CONNUS SOUS LE NOM DE FRERES DE BOHEME & DE MORAVIE, . AVEC XVI. PLANCHES.
de Cranz, David (1723-77)
- Usado
- very good
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very Good
- Librería
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Fairfield, New Jersey, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Amsterdam?: Publisher Not Stated. Very Good. 1758. First French Edition. Hardcover. Handsome later binding of full brown calf with raised bands and gilt decoration & lettering. Encased in a near fine brown slipcase with matching labels to book. Text & hinges tight & intact. Title page has black & red lettering. Illustrated with a few head & tail-pieces. Browning mostly to edges of first 5 leaves. 16 double-page engraved plates, printed on one side of leaves & bound in rear. According to Sabin (Dictionary of Books Relating to America, New York: 1869) ," First published in German in 1757, this brief history of the origins and doctrines of Church of the Unity of the Brethren is of particular interest for its plates depicting their rites and their missionary work to indigenous peoples." “The plates contain elaborate representations of the Moravian ceremonies of ordination, of the different modes of baptizing infants, negroes, Greenlanders, and American Indians, also of the exorcism, prosternation [prostration], Eucharist, an Agape dinner, holy kiss, feet-washing, marriage, etc. ” Religion, Moravians. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 87 pages .
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- Librería
- Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 17702
- Título
- BRIÈVE & FIDÈLE EXPOSITION DE L'ORIGINE, DE LA DOCTRINE, DES CONSTITUTIONS, USAGES ET CEREMONIES ECCLESIASTIQUES DE L'EGLISE DE L'UNITÉ DES FRERES CONNUS SOUS LE NOM DE FRERES DE BOHEME & DE MORAVIE, . AVEC XVI. PLANCHES.
- Autor
- Cranz, David (1723-77)
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good
- Edición
- First French Edition
- Editorial
- Publisher Not Stated
- Lugar de publicación
- Amsterdam?
- Fecha de publicación
- 1758
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Religion;
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Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
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Sobre el vendedor
Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Miembro de Biblio desde 2005
Fairfield, New Jersey
Sobre Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Nick Bikoff and his wife Fran have been buying and selling quality books and ephemera since 1989 when they attended the "Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar" at the University of Denver. They offer a broad based selection of used, rare, and out-of-print stock ranging from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
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- Fine
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- Edges
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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- Calf
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- Title Page
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Raised Band(s)
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- New
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