Pierre Rocolet (3 results)

Couverture souple. Condition: Très bon. Edition originale. In-4° broché, sous couverture d'attente moderne imprimée, 8 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 12 mo. (135 x 83 mm.) xvi, 276, 360, 8 pp. Fifteen contemporarily hand-colored plates. Woodcut initials, head and tailpieces. Contemporary calf beautifully decorated in pointillé style. Covers well-worn with a few old repairs along the edges, centers, and front hinge. Traces of clasps, portrait of Mary Magdalene with a repaired tear at the lower margin. Spine bowed from devoted use. Pages largely clean. Overall, a Good solid copy of a lovely book.*** The book opens with two dedications to Madeleine Fabry, wife of Chancellor Pierre Séguier - one by Jean Ballesdens, Séguier s secretary and a great bibliophile, and the other by the printer Pierre Rocolet. Two of the fifteen plates bear the name of Balthasar Moncornet, a prolific Parisian painter, engraver, and print dealer, best known for his portraits of the nobility of the time. Christian maxims, spiritual exercises, the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary, litanies, psalms, and prayers follow. *** The 15 plates placed throughout comprise: - the adolescent Jesus - an altar where the dedicatee Madame la Chanceliere is kneeling - Moses with the Ten Commandments - Mary with tablets of Six Church Commandments - St. Hyacinth - Mary Magdalene - Saint Peter - St. Simon receiving the Scapular from Mary - young Jesus carrying the instruments of the Passion - the Virgin Mary - Mary nursing Jesus and the coat of arms of the Chancelière - Mary with baby Jesus and St. John - young Jesus with the cross-bearing orb and instruments of the Passion - the Blessed Sacrament flanked by two angels - King David ***Please email us for better pricing.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1614 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set and contains approximately 14 pages. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: French.