Cinquante meditations de toute l’histoire de la passion de Nostre Seigneur, [trsl. Gabriel Chappuis].

8vo: 324-[3, 1 bl.] pp. (toned, tear in V8).

Old calf, gilt ruled border on covers, gilt spine on 5 raised bands, red edges (sl. rubbed). Good copy.

French trsl. by G. Chappuis (1546-1613) of a collection of meditations on the Lord’s Passion by the Brabant Jesuit Costerus (1532-1619). One of the copies issued with 50 numbered full-page engravings by Petrus vander Borcht. Additional engr. front. (Christ standing with the Cross). Woodcut on title. Ref. BT 5504. - Voet (Plantin Press) 1049B. - Bibl. Belg. I:882 C-549. - BCNI 3933. - DBS II:1520-1521:6. - Not in Adams, Sorgeloos, STC Dutch (BL). Prov. "Em. Mancel", i.e. Gustave-Émile Mancel (1831-1909), French naval historian, whose collection was sold in 1896 (lithograph armorial bookpl.).