Histoire de Nostre Dame de Hale. Traduite du Latin par le F.M.R. recollect, & augmentée de plusieurs merveilles venus en lumière, depuis la mort de l'autheur.

Brussels, H. Anthoon Velpius, 1661

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8vo: [10 incl. front.]-134-[10] pp. (sm. tear underlaid at front.).

Contemp. vellum, flat spine titled in ink. Very good copy.

Later edition of this French translation of Lipsius' work on the miracles of the Halle Virgin. Ill. with an engr. folding front. by P. Clouwet after A. van Diepenbeke, showing i.a. the duke of Arenberg, to whom this book is dedicated. Woodcut ornament on title.
Ref. B.B. III:978:L-314. - Bowen HAL-21. - BCNI 11758. - Matagne (Namur) L-451. - de le Court 543. - STCV.
Prov. "Ex bibliotheca Teneramundana [...]" (ownership entry). - "Bavo vander Varent" (id.). - "P. Siré", probably Petrus Siré, the author of a book on Our Lady of Hanswyck (Dendermonde, 1738) (id.).