GAUME, Jean Joseph - A guide for confessors: from the writings of the most pointed...

GAUME, Jean Joseph - A guide for confessors: from the writings of the most excellent, most experienced and most saintly confessors in the Church / a work arranged by J. Gaum ; translated from the French. Urban Rokicki. Vol. 1-2. Vilna 1860, Joseph Zawadzki. 22 cm, pp. 304 ; 380 ; altogether bound in period : psk. with gilt on spine, scrolls convex.
Father Jean Joseph Gaume, in the work offered, has described in detail the various aspects of the sacrament of penance, relevant to priests, necessary for a reliable confession. Interesting chapters of a customary nature, e.g. "On the inquiries to be made to persons of various states, insensible to their duties" (to a priest, nuns, a judge, a doctor, a merchant, a tailor), extensive tables of contents. On the front pastedown handwritten dedication dated. 1887. abrasions of covers (mainly paper wrappers), rust spots on k. in places, more than good condition.