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TRAVERS, Nicolas

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Les Pouvoirs légitimes du premier et du second ordre dans l'administration des sacremens et le gouvernement de l'Eglise S.l., 1744. In-4, full calf, boards stamped with the arms surmounted by the crosier and the mitre, spine ribbed and decorated with the arms and various motifs, casters on the covers. One headband frayed, corners worn. XXXII (including title), 771, (3) pp Bound with the arms of Abbé Élisabeth Théodose de Breteuil (1712-1781), brother of the Marquise du Châtelet, a woman of letters, mathematician and physicist who was a major figure of the Age of Enlightenment. This book is not very common because it was censored by the faculty of Nantes, which led to the internment of its author.