Selected works by Madame de la Motte Guyon or Comments and Speculations on Parables, Ecclesiastes, the Song of Songs and the Wisdom of Solomon, the Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach.

In 5 books, Moscow, University Press, 1823. 442 pages. Treatise by the French Quietist Jeanne-Marie Madame de la Motte Guyon (1648-1717). Quietism is the belief that the human soul is constantly employmed in the passive contemplation of God and his attributes). Full leather bindings of the 2nd half of the 19th century. Gild-stamped covers and spine. Patterned endpapers with blind-stamped border, all edges gilt. Book-plate of Evstokhy Semennikov. 23х14.5сm., in good condition: some staining to pages. The edition is of importance to collectors. Rare.