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[HELYOT ( Pierre )]. Histoire des ordres monastiques, religieux et militaires

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[HELYOT ( Pierre )]. Histoire des ordres monastiques, religieux et militaires

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Auction Date:2012 Oct 20 @ 11:00 (UTC+1)
Location:38 Molesworth Street, Dublin, Dublin, ., Ireland
[HELYOT ( Pierre )]. Histoire des ordres monastiques, religieux et militaires, et des congregations seculieres de l'un & de l'autre sexe, qui ont este´ establies jusqu'a` present … A Paris : chez Jean Baptiste Coignard, 1714-19FIRST EDITION, complete with 811 engraved plates of costume, the printed title-pages in red and black with large vignette, pages xcviii, (6), 399, (24) : (8), 436, (14, table), (2, additions, (4, another state of pages 311/2 and 283/4), (1, corrections) : xvi, (8), 456, (47) : (8), 464, (42) : (6), 488, (20) : (8), 446, (24) : (8), 493, (35) : (8), 446, (38), 8 vols, 4to, contemporary calf, gilt spines, with labels, gilt : printed titles with two small stamps in the blank margin, otherwise without any markings, all cords strong but the spines defective and well worn, internally in very good to nice state with the fine plates clean and fresh. Colas 1417 without mention of the extra leaves in vol two. Published anonymously : vols 1-5 by Helyot and vols 6-8 generally attributed to Maximilien Bullot. Helyot (1660-1716) made lengthy journeys throughhhout Europe, which afforded him ample opportunity to collect material for his great work on the religious orders. It treats of the history of religious and knightly orders, and of congregations of both sexes, down to his own time, and exhibits more particularly their origin, growth, deterioration, suppression, or dissolution, various offshoots and reforms; adding also the lives of the chief founders, and illustrations of different monastic habits. Being written on scientific principles, though not always with critical insight, it was very favourably received, and achieved a wide circulation (Catholic Ency.).(8)PARIS PRINTED; COSTUME; RELIGION; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;