Colección de las cartas que bajo el título de Filósofo Rancio escribió en los años de 1811, 1812, 1813 y 1814

Alvarado, Francisco, 1756-1814

Colección de las cartas que bajo el título de Filósofo Rancio escribió en los años de 1811, 1812, 1813 y 1814

Por el M. Rv. P. M. Fr. Francisco Alvarado, de la Orden de Predicadores

Gerona

Antonio Oliva, impresor de S. M.

Not identified

Antonio Oliva

1824

Gerona: Antonio Oliva, impresor de S. M., 1824. Distribution: Oficina de Piferrer, Plaza del Ángel, Barcelona

Spanish

Complete edition in four volumes published in Gerona in 1824

4 volumes

None

20-22 cm; octavo

20-22 cm

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Laid paper with oxidation typical of the period

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Single-column printing; old roman type

Handcrafted Spanish paste-paper binding

Brown tones characteristic of Spanish paste binding

Leather spines with gilt tools; some reused spines

Gilt decoration; possible reused spine with inscription “TASSO / GERUSAL. LIBERO.”

Complete collection of the letters signed as “El Filósofo Rancio”, written between 1811 and 1814. Political-religious work of counter-revolutionary and anti-Jansenist character, representative of Spanish conservative doctrinal thought in the early nineteenth century

Complete work in four volumes

Letters written between 1811 and 1814 under the pseudonym “El Filósofo Rancio”

Relatively uncommon edition as a complete set

Non-publisher handcrafted nineteenth-century binding

Important testimony of Spanish traditionalist thought after the Peninsular War

Spanish political-religious thought of the nineteenth century

Jansenism; doctrinal controversies; Spanish religious literature; political correspondence; Catholic Church; counter-revolutionary thought; Spanish conservatism

1769

Very good; laid paper with homogeneous oxidation

Library of Alfred Gallart i Genis

Solid and well-preserved handcrafted binding