Les allumettes du feu diuin/ pour faire ardre les cueurs humains en lamour de dieu/ Ou sont declarez les principales articles et mysteres de la passion de nostre sauueur Jesus. Auec les voyes de paradis [...].

8vo: clxvj (= 166)-[2], [48] ff. (somewhat toned and spotted, a few stains, blank top corner of ff. 1-3 wormed).

Early-19th-c. mottled leather, covers with gilt ornamental border, gilt flat spine with red label, sp. edges, red silk marker (rubbed, front joint def. at tail). Good copy.

Rare 1st edition of a popular devotional work by the French Dominican Doré (1500-1569). The book was printed by Caveiller and issued by at least 6 Paris booksellers. Title in red & black. Title and part title within woodcut border. Text in gothic type. Ref. Bechtel (Gothiques) D-385. - Cp. Ind. Aurel. 155.362 (A. Lotrian). - Cp. BP16 108847 (P. Sergent). - Cp. Pettegree FB 16522 (Caveiller for Fr. Regnault). - Not in Adams, STC French (BL). Prov. Cont. ownership entry at bottom of title. - Édouard de Laplane, 1774-1870, “Secrétaire général de la préfecture des Basses-Alpes, Sisteron” [BnF] (armorial bookpl.). - E. Edmont, probably the French linguist Edmond Edmont, 1849-1926 (collector’s stamp). - [Georges Petit].