MAURY (Jean Sifrein) "Essai sur l'éloquence de la chaire, discourses, éloges et panégyriques" (Essay on pulpit eloquence, speeches, eulogies and panegyrics). Paris, Chez Gauthier Frère et Cie,1828 One volume in-8 full calf, the first plate decorated with a leafy frame centered on a medallion bearing the inscription "Collège Royal d'Auch - Université de France", the spine with six caissons, title in gilt letters, frontispiece. Internal label "Collège Royal d'Auch. Distribution des prix d'Excellence du 1er fenestre de l'année scolaire 1837-38 - Classe rhétorique Premier Prix décerné à l'élève Comte - Auch le 11 Avril 1838" signed by the censor and principal. (cracks, wear and traces of wood-eating insects, internal foxing).

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