Exercice spirituel, ou le chrestien peut apprendre la maniere d'employer le iour au seruice de DIEV / par V.C.P. ... Dedié à Madame la Chanceliere. Reueu, corrigé, & augmenté de nouueau.

Accession number

PML 127611

Published

A Paris : En la boutique de P. Rocolet : chez Damien Foucault, 1664.

Description

1 v. : ill. (engravings) ; 20 cm. (4to)

Notes

Edited by Jean Balesdens; with his preface to Mme. Seguier, as well as another preface to her by Rocolet.
An earlier edition of Exercice spirituel ... par V.C.P. Paris 1676. Compiled by Louis Cousin (1627-1707), Paul Pellison-Fontanier (1624-1693), and

Binding

Bound in white silk over pasteboards, with floral embroideries in red, blue, green, and white on both covers and spine; very high-relief (stumpwork) silver bullion embroidery on upper and lower covers; pink silk linings; broad pink silk place-marker ribbo

Variant title

Exercice spiritvel

Provenance

Robert Hoe (his sale, part II, 1912, lot 223), to Quaritch; J. Roland Abbey (his sale, lot 1844).

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Classification

Binding Collection

Century

17th century

Department

Printed Books