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Dieu soit loué. Recueil de Prières. Nouvelle édition. (reliure en papier maché).
Anvers ( Antwerpen ) , D. Spitaels, s.d (1883 according the printed calender), format in-16°, 100 x 68 mm, (4) nn pp (chromolithographic frontispiece, chromolithographic title) + 320 pp. BINDING: Bound in a papier maché binding, black coloured, front cover depicts a biblical scene with a neo-gothic background (Jesus with the sacred hearth and a pigeon. All edges gilt. With a working gilt clasp. White silky paper endleaves. Faultless state of preservation.Allthough these kind of Roman Catholic devotional books were quite common in the second half of the 19th c. it is quite unique to come across such a nicely preserved copy in a very rare papier maché binding..
Petit Paroissine ou. Recueil de Pieux Exercices. Nouvelle édition. (reliure en papier maché).
" Anvers ( Antwerpen ) , D. Spitaels, s.d (before April 1888 according a private note on the fly leaf), format in-16°, 88 x 58 mm, (2) nn pp (steelengraved frontipiece) + 288 pp.: BINDING : Bound in a papier maché binding, black coloured, front cover depicts the virgin Mary on an altar, a women with a rosery kneels before the statue with a working gilt clasp. All edges gilt. White silky paper endleaves. Private entry in manuscript (dated 1888) on the first paste down, ; in faultless state of preservation.Allthough these kind of Roman Catholic devotional books were quite common in the second half of the 19th c. it is quite unique to come across such a nicely preserved copy in a very rare papier maché binding.."
