La vie du vénérable père Pierre Claver, de la Compagnie de Jesus, apôtre de Cartagene et des Indes occidentales
By: Par le P. Bertrand-Gabriel Fleuriau. de la même Compagnie
Contributors: Catholic Church. Pope (1740-1758 : Benedict XIV); Sulpician Seminary (Paris, France}
Publisher: Chez Bordelet, rue saint Jacques, vis-à-vis les Jesuites, à Saint Ignace
Published: 1751
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 499
Subjects: Jesuits; Christian saints; Missions; Biography
Other titles: Vie du vénérable père Pierre Claver, de la Compagnie de Jesus.
Notes: Saint Peter Claver was a Spanish Jesuit missionary in Colombia who was commonly known as the Saint of the Slaves, according to the New Catholic Encyclopedia.

"Decretum sanctissimi D. nostri Benedicti PP. XIV. in causâ beatificationis & canonisationis venerabilis servi Dei, Petri Claver, sacerdotis professi Societatis Jesu" and "Decret de N. S. pere le Pape Benoist XIV. touchant le procès de la béatification, & de la canonisation du vénérable serviteur de Dieu Pierre Claver, prêtre procés de la Compagnie de Jesus", p. 490-499, are printed in parallel columns of Latin and French, and dated: September 24, 1747.

Signatures: a⁸ (a1, a2 versos blank) b⁴ A-2T⁸⁻⁴ (Ziv missigned Zii)

Errata: p. [4], 3rd count.

Engraved printer's ornament on title page; head and tail pieces; initials.

Cf. Sabin, 24745.

Palau y Dulcet (2. ed.) 92154.

Streit, R. Bib. missionum, II:570.

Backer-Sommervogel (1967 reprint) III: col. 786.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary full mottled calf.

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: Ex bibliotheca seminarii sancti Sulpitii Parisiensis [the library of the seminary of the Sulpicians in Paris]: book plate on front pastedown.