Les fleurs des vies des saincts et festes de toute l'année, suyuant l'vsage du calendrier Romain reformé. Paris: Chés la vefue Guilaume de la Noüe..., 1609. )(6, A-BBBBb6, CCCCc8. Large engraved vignette to title page, engraved head- and tail-pieces, hundreds of small woodcuts of Saints in text. Folio (350 x 220 mm). 17th century quarter calf. Lacking final blank, wormholes to final 60 leaves affecting text, small wormhole to upper margin of opening leaves outside text, title page age toned with contemporary marginalia (“conventus dolac[?]”), boards well worn and scraped. Second French edition preceded by a shorter version by Noüe in 1606, and first printed in Madrid in 1599/1600. A highly influential hagiography, and very scarce. No copies located in institutions.
Les fleurs des vies des saincts et festes de toute l'année, suyuant l'vsage du calendrier Romain reformé. Paris: Chés la vefue Guilaume de la Noüe..., 1609. )(6, A-BBBBb6, CCCCc8. Large engraved vignette to title page, engraved head- and tail-pieces, hundreds of small woodcuts of Saints in text. Folio (350 x 220 mm). 17th century quarter calf. Lacking final blank, wormholes to final 60 leaves affecting text, small wormhole to upper margin of opening leaves outside text, title page age toned with contemporary marginalia (“conventus dolac[?]”), boards well worn and scraped. Second French edition preceded by a shorter version by Noüe in 1606, and first printed in Madrid in 1599/1600. A highly influential hagiography, and very scarce. No copies located in institutions.
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