{"product_id":"pair-of-18th-century-french-books-1766-1774","title":"Pair of 18th-Century French Books, 1766 \u0026 1774","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwo genuinely antique French books in original paper-board bindings with exposed hand-sewn spines, both dating to the third quarter of the 18th century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first, \u003cem\u003eHistoire de la Constitution Unigenitus\u003c\/em\u003e by Pierre-François Lafiteau, Bishop of Sisteron (Avignon, 1766), is a history and defense of the famous papal bull Unigenitus of 1713, the decree that condemned Jansenism and set off one of the great religious and political struggles of 18th-century France. Lafiteau (1685 to 1764) had served as the King's chargé d'affaires at the Holy See in Rome before writing it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe second, a \u003cem\u003eCours abrégé de géographie historique, ancienne et moderne, et de la sphère\u003c\/em\u003e (Neuchâtel, 1774), is an Enlightenment-era geography textbook from the celebrated Société Typographique de Neuchâtel. Written in a question-and-answer format, it surveys the geography of the ancient and modern world along with the fundamentals of the celestial and terrestrial sphere.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSoft tan boards, deckled pages, and beautiful honest age, ideal styled as a stack, displayed open, or layered into a vignette.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Honest age, with worn boards, toning, and fragile hand-sewn spines; sold as decorative antiques.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 7 by 4½ by 1¼ inches.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"foundresse","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56679978500262,"sku":null,"price":98.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0637\/7645\/6870\/files\/008BA47F-92F6-4308-B267-F591A181124B.jpg?v=1781889170","url":"https:\/\/foundresse.com\/products\/pair-of-18th-century-french-books-1766-1774","provider":"foundresse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}