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CAMUS, JEAN-PIERRE, Bishop of Belley. Alcime, Relation Funeste, ou se descouvre la Main de Dieu sur les Impies. [24], 680, [2] pages, including final blank. 12mo, contemporary vellum with thong ties, spine darkened with small hole in center, short crack in front joint; title soiled, diagonal clean tear in one preliminary leaf, blank lower outer corner off a few leaves, dampstaining in upper outer corners at end. Paris: Martin Lasnier, 1625
first edition of a moralistic novel chronicling the adulterous and violently doomed love affair of Alcime and Vannoze. An English translation was published in 1677. Camus (1584-1652) was a prolific author of melodramatic religious fiction in addition to homiletical and theological works.
