Histoire de l'institution de la Fête-Dieu. Avec la vie des bienheureuses Julienne et Eve [...] suivi de L'abrégé historique de l'institution des illustres confrairies de l'adoration perpétuelle de l'auguste sacrement des autels [...].

Liège, J.-A. Gerlach, 1781

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4to: [2]-x-front.-210-xlii-[2] pp.; 17 pl.

Later sheep, titled spine with raised bands, red edges (joints and edges rubbed, corners bumped).

Devotional treatise (1st 1746) by the Jesuit historian Bertholet (1688-1755). Engr. ill. (complete): front. titled "Triomphe de l'Église", portrait of Baron de Hubens, dean of St. Martin's Basilica (Liège) and 16 numb. plates (n. 2-17) by Joseph and Johann Klauber depicting religious scenes i.a. the vision of St Julienne.
Ref. De Theux 671.