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* ANSELME (abbot). Funeral Oration of the very...

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* ANSELME (abbot). Funeral Oration of the very illustrious and very virtuous Princess Madame Marie Eléonor de Rohan, Abesse de Malnouë, pronounced in Paris on the eleventh day of April 1682 in the Church of the Benedictine Nuns of the Priory of Chasse-Midy, where she is buried. In Paris, Chez Sébastien Mabre-Cramoisy, 1682. In-4, [1] f., 58 p., [5] f. (warning, French, Latin and Italian epitaphs, privilege), 19th c. orange semi-percaline, author and title in full length and date cold (rub. at corners and headdresses, browning in margin; qq. letters of f. H3 cut by the bookbinder). Illustrated with an armorial vignette at the title, a repeated vignette at the head of the eulogy and epitaph, and a cul-de-lampe, all engraved on copper.