(JESUITS] - GAZAIGNES (Jean Antoine), abbot] Annales... - Lot 158 - Briscadieu

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(JESUITS] - GAZAIGNES (Jean Antoine), abbot] Annales... - Lot 158 - Briscadieu
(JESUITS] - GAZAIGNES (Jean Antoine), abbot] Annales de la Société des soi-disans Jésuites; ou recueil historique-chronologique de tous les actes, écrits, dénonciations, avis doctrinaux, requêtes, ordonnances, mandemens, instructions pastorales, décrets, censures [Annals of the Society of the so-called Jesuits; or historical-chronological collection of all the acts, writings, denunciations, doctrinal opinions, requests, ordinances, mandemens, pastoral instructions, decrees, censures] Paris, se., 1764-69. 4/5 volumes in-4 (vols. I-IV); illustrated with 4 frontispieces and 6 plates out of text (3 of which double-page). Small traces of worms in the margins at the head of a few leaves of volume I, with damage to the text of a few leaves of volume III, small stains. Contemporary marbled fawn calf, spine ribbed and decorated, red title-pieces, 4 damaged headpieces, one bit split, cold fillet framing the boards, gilt fillet on the edges, red edges. Publication against the Jesuits. Without the last volume which was published in 1771. In spite of the anti-Jesuit spirit and the negative prevention, the work is interesting because it contains information on the exploits of Jesuits in their missions in South America, India, China and Japan.
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