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[Devotion] LUIS de Granada La grande guide des pêcheurs, pour les acheminer à vertu. En laquelle est traitté fort amplement des beautez, et grandes richesses de la vertu, et ensemble du chemin qu'il faut suivre pour l'obtenir. Paris, Widow G. de la Nouë, 8vo: [12]-469-[ff. (foxing in some margins, some perforated, marginal damp stains, occ. small stains). Contemp. brown morocco, covers and flat spine decorated "à la du Seuil", spine titled in gilt, gilt inside dentelles, a.e.g. (soiled, lower turn-in split, lower cover dampstained, corners strongly bumped, one restored, 18th-c. ownership on the front flyleaf). Ascetical work by Luis de Granada (1504-1588), Dominican Friar, first published in Spanish in and in a French translation of Paul Du Mont in at Douai. This work has been compared with Thomas à Kempis' "De imitatione Christi" and has been translated in several languages. Contains also his "Miroir de la vie humaine" ("Libro de la Oracion y Meditacion", in a translation of Jean Chabanel, starting with mental exercises. Ruled copy. Ref. Brunet II:(other ed.; "Le Guide des pescheurs est de tous les ouvrages de Louis de Grenade celui qui a été le plus souvent traduit en français"). - Not in Matagne. Starting bid: