[BINDING] | Exercice Spirituel, ou est ensigné au Chrestien la maniere d'employer le jour au service de Dieu. Par V. C. P. Paris: Pierre Rocolet, 1643

[BINDING]

Exercice Spirituel, ou est ensigné au Chrestien la maniere d'employer le jour au service de Dieu. Par V. C. P. Paris: Pierre Rocolet, 1643

12mo (5 1/4 x 3 1/4 in.; 133 x 83 mm). 12 engraved plates, woodcut headpieces, tailpieces and initials; first few leaves slightly ragged at fore-edges. Fine contemporary red morocco with pointillé mosaic binding, red morocco, spine elaborately gilt in six compartments, covers with central panels with elaborate pointillé floral tooling and central quatrefoil of inlaid black morocco, corners with tan morocco onlays, elaborate gilt borders, edges gilt, two metal clasps, gilt dentelles. Half red morocco gilt clamshell case. 

A fine 17th-century French binding.

REFERENCES

Esmerian II:34