Tableaux sacrez des figures mystiques du très-auguste sacrifice et sacrement de l'eucharistie. Dédiez à la très chrestienne royne de France et de Navarre Marie de Médicis [...]. Édition dernière reveue, corrigée et augmentée par laucteur 1609.

8vo: engr. frontisp., [48]-518-[2 bl.]-[37]-[1 bl.] pp. (marg. tears and lacks on title-page and several plates and lvs, but only with some very minor losses and mostly restored, some foxing, clear waterstains and sm. stains, some sl. pencil scrawls, marg. ink annotation on one pl.).

Contemp. brown calf, boards richly gold tooled with a border of pointillé, fillets, and small roll surrounding a geometrical design alternating azured lozenges with lozenges containing small fleurons forming a cross, with a larger empty lozenge in the middle, flat spine decorated with the same design, a.e.g. (some lacks restored on turn-ins, joints, cuts and corners).

Revised and enlarged edition (1st ed., same address, 1601) of this mystic work by a Provencal jesuit, Richeome (1544-1625), nicknamed "le Cicéron français" by his colleagues. Remarkably illustrated with an architectural frontisp. by Thomas de Leu, showing allegories of Church and religion and King Henri IV and Marie de Medicis (with their coats of arms) adoring the Virgin and Child, and 14 full-page figures by Leonard Gaultier and Charles de Mallery. Copy in an unusual binding design.
Ref. Caillet 9414 ("curieux ouvrage de mystique"). - DBS VI:1820:10. - Matagne (other editions).