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🔴 Prayer book The Way to Paradise from 1892, mother-of-pearl effect mosaic
  • 🔴 Prayer book The Way to Paradise from 1892, mother-of-pearl effect mosaic
  • 🔴 Prayer book The Way to Paradise from 1892, mother-of-pearl effect mosaic
  • 🔴 Prayer book The Way to Paradise from 1892, mother-of-pearl effect mosaic
  • 🔴 Prayer book The Way to Paradise from 1892, mother-of-pearl effect mosaic
  • 🔴 Prayer book The Way to Paradise from 1892, mother-of-pearl effect mosaic
  • 🔴 Prayer book The Way to Paradise from 1892, mother-of-pearl effect mosaic
  • 🔴 Prayer book The Way to Paradise from 1892, mother-of-pearl effect mosaic
  • 🔴 Prayer book The Way to Paradise from 1892, mother-of-pearl effect mosaic
  • 🔴 Prayer book The Way to Paradise from 1892, mother-of-pearl effect mosaic
  • 🔴 Prayer book The Way to Paradise from 1892, mother-of-pearl effect mosaic
  • 🔴 Prayer book The Way to Paradise from 1892, mother-of-pearl effect mosaic
  • 🔴 Prayer book The Way to Paradise from 1892, mother-of-pearl effect mosaic
  • 🔴 Prayer book The Way to Paradise from 1892, mother-of-pearl effect mosaic
  • 🔴 Prayer book The Way to Paradise from 1892, mother-of-pearl effect mosaic
  • 🔴 Prayer book The Way to Paradise from 1892, mother-of-pearl effect mosaic
  • 🔴 Prayer book The Way to Paradise from 1892, mother-of-pearl effect mosaic
  • 🔴 Prayer book The Way to Paradise from 1892, mother-of-pearl effect mosaic
  • 🔴 Prayer book The Way to Paradise from 1892, mother-of-pearl effect mosaic
  • 🔴 Prayer book The Way to Paradise from 1892, mother-of-pearl effect mosaic
  • 🔴 Prayer book The Way to Paradise from 1892, mother-of-pearl effect mosaic
  • 🔴 Prayer book The Way to Paradise from 1892, mother-of-pearl effect mosaic
  • 🔴 Prayer book The Way to Paradise from 1892, mother-of-pearl effect mosaic
  • 🔴 Prayer book The Way to Paradise from 1892, mother-of-pearl effect mosaic
  • 🔴 Prayer book The Way to Paradise from 1892, mother-of-pearl effect mosaic
  • 🔴 Prayer book The Way to Paradise from 1892, mother-of-pearl effect mosaic
  • 🔴 Prayer book The Way to Paradise from 1892, mother-of-pearl effect mosaic
  • 🔴 Prayer book The Way to Paradise from 1892, mother-of-pearl effect mosaic
  • 🔴 Prayer book The Way to Paradise from 1892, mother-of-pearl effect mosaic
  • 🔴 Prayer book The Way to Paradise from 1892, mother-of-pearl effect mosaic
  • 🔴 Prayer book The Way to Paradise from 1892, mother-of-pearl effect mosaic
🔴 Prayer book The Way to Paradise from 1892, mother-of-pearl effect mosaic

🔴 Prayer book The Way to Paradise from 1892, mother-of-pearl effect mosaic

€75,00

Splendid Catholic devotional book entitled “ The Way to Paradise ”, published in Milan by Gerosa & Grandi – Librai Editori, with the imprimatur of the Bishop of Bergamo dated February 6, 1892.

A complete liturgical work, with daily prayers, hymns, novenas, litanies, and meditations, enriched by copperplate engravings and two-color typographic friezes.

The volume features a hardcover decorated with a mother-of-pearl mosaic effect (not real mother-of-pearl), with a geometric motif and a central panel engraved with a floral relief. The page edges retain their original gilding, now weathered by time.

↔️ Length: 7.8 cm (🇺🇸 3.07”) ↕️ Height: 11 cm (🇺🇸 4.33”) 📏 Thickness: 2.2 cm (🇺🇸 0.86”)

📖 384 numbered pages

🎨 Copper engravings and red and polychrome typographic friezes

✨ Gold page edges

📜 Guaranteed original – Gerosa & Grandi Milano edition

📦 Shipped with protective case

⏳ Period: 19th century – 1892

🔍 Condition as per photo (cover to be bound, signs of wear consistent with age)

📖 An era of inner enrichment: "The Way of Paradise" is one of the most widely used prayer manuals of the late nineteenth century, designed to accompany daily devotion with a rich array of prayers and hymns. This copy, printed in 1892 in Milan, was not only a religious book but also a typographical gem, with decorations, engravings, and an ornamental cover, reflecting the craftsmanship of nineteenth-century Italian bookbinding.


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