Oraisons d’orées, avec des figures representatives de la vie de nostre Seigneur Iesus Christ. Liure fort deuot, & salutaire à tout homme, mis en francois, par M. Pierre de Lastre.

12mo: 272 (of 312) pp. (pp. 19-20, 25-26, 29-30, 35-40, 47-48, 51-52, 55-66, 69-70, 73-74, 95-96, 103-104, 113-114, 263-264 missing; cut short, toning, top corner of title repaired with sm. losses to calendar text on verso, a few tiny holes in title, some marginal repairs).

18th-c. mottled calf, richly gilt spine with 5 raised bands, gilt sides, red edges, marbled endpapers, silk marker. Defective copy, s.w.a.f.

Extr. rare (unique copy?). 3rd rev. ed. of the French trsl. of a popular Latin collection of prayers. A 4th ed., Liège 1625, is recorded by de Theux (Bibl. liég. 83). On pp. 280-302 "Briefve declaration ou meditation, sur les sept Pseaulmes de Penitence, composee par Maistre Godouard Striroy de Diest [...] Prieur aux Iacopins a Louuain"; on pp. 302 ff. a "Litanie ancienne". Title woodcut + 47 (of ?) hand-coloured woodcuts, some heightened with (liquid) gold and some with monogram P.B. Calendar in red and black.
Ref. Not in BT, STCV, BCNI, STC (BL), Pettegree (NB) etc.