1697 Scarce French Book - L'ÉPOUSE AU DÉSERT - The Wife at the Desert. Meditations.
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Author: Cordelier, docteur de Sorbonne.
Title: L'Épouse au désert, ou Diverses méditations pour les retraites annuelles des religieuses, avec un exercice de préparation pour la rénovation des voeux, par M. Cordelier, ... 1st part and 2nd part. (Complete 2 books bound in one volume)
Language: Text in French.
Publisher: Paris, Chez Urbain Coustelier, 1697.
Size: 7 " X 4 ".
Pages: 1st part: 337 Pages -- 2nd part: 230 pages + catalogue of the publisher.
Binding: Very good full calf leather binding (hinges fine, overall slightly scuffed and worn) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content: Very good content (bright, tight and clean, rare staining and foxing some annotations on the page facing title page - as shown, the outer margin of the title page has been reinforced by a previous owner - as shown).
The book: Scarce 17th century French edition of L'Épouse au Désert - The Wife at the Desert - a scarce book on the philosophy of meditation and introspection based on the precepts of Saint Ignatius of Loyola.