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Jesuit Prayerbook, Illustrated. L'Office de la Vierge Marie pour tout les Temps de l'Année. Reveu et Ordonné de Nouveau, Suyvant la Reformation du Concile de Trente.
Paris: Chez Sebastien Huré, 1649.
Octavo, engraved title page (fore-margin trimmed away, corners torn, affecting engraving); illustrated with twenty full page plates; text printed in red and black, in French and Latin; ruled in red throughout; first two leaves trimmed with loss.
[Bound with] Pierre Coton's Devotes Oraisons pour Tous Chrestiens & Catholiques, Paris: Chez Sebastien Huré, 1649, woodcut device to title with Jesuit monogram at the center of a rose; bound in full green morocco by Pechoz-Letouzey, boards and spine ruled in gilt, with neat titling to spine; inner gilt dentelles, all edges marbled and gilt; endleaves decorated with an all-over diamond pattern, each compartment featuring a dancing bird, done in green and orange with a gilt background; very nicely preserved; 7 x 4 1/2 in.
