![164 1809 1809 [Le Clerc, Paul] L'Ame Penitente ou Le Nouveau Pensez-y-Bien; Consideration sure les verites eternelles, ... Detroit 2001 $3,650 WR, 40035](http://images2.bonhams.com/image?src=Images/live/2010-07/27/8105307-165-1.jpg&tmp=web300&top=0.000000&left=0.000000&right=1.000000&bottom=1.000000&dt=zoom_image "164 1809 1809 [Le Clerc, Paul] L'Ame Penitente ou Le Nouveau Pensez-y-Bien; Consideration sure les verites eternelles, ... Detroit 2001 $3,650 WR, 40035 Sold for US$ 2,375 inc. premium")
16 Apr 2012
10:00 EDT
New York
Fine Books and Manuscripts featuring the Michael Lerner Collection
Back to auction 19972
Fine Books and Manuscripts featuring the Michael Lerner Collection
Back to auction 19972
MICHIGAN IMPRINT.
[LE CLERC, PAUL. 1657-1740.] L'Ame penitente ou nouveau pensez-bien; consideration sur les verites eternelles avec des histoires & des examples.... Detroit: Jacques M. Miller, 1809. 24mo (130 x 74 mm). vi, [7]-220 pp. Half-title. Uncut and unbound. Dust-soiling and some toning.
THE FIRST BOOK PRINTED IN MICHIGAN, preceded only by broadsides and pamphlets of less than 25 pages. "L'Ame penitente (The Penitent Soul) ... was popular reading in France during the eighteenth century. It is not surprising that Father [Gabriel] Richard selected it as the first piece to be printed by J.M. Miller on the newly acquired Richard Press" (Greenly). This copy is an almost incredible survival, uncut and never sewn. The most recent other copy to appear at auction is the Streeter copy, also unbound. Greenly Selective Bibliography of Michigan 4; McMurtrie 25; Streeter sale 1387.
See illustration.
THE FIRST BOOK PRINTED IN MICHIGAN, preceded only by broadsides and pamphlets of less than 25 pages. "L'Ame penitente (The Penitent Soul) ... was popular reading in France during the eighteenth century. It is not surprising that Father [Gabriel] Richard selected it as the first piece to be printed by J.M. Miller on the newly acquired Richard Press" (Greenly). This copy is an almost incredible survival, uncut and never sewn. The most recent other copy to appear at auction is the Streeter copy, also unbound. Greenly Selective Bibliography of Michigan 4; McMurtrie 25; Streeter sale 1387.
See illustration.
Sold for
US$ 2,375
inc. premium
Category: Books / Books, Maps and Manuscripts
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