L’Adoration, ou La prière et le désir : l’Homme à Dieu.

4to: [1 bl., 11] ff.

Contemp. red quarter morocco, richly gilt spine with 5 raised bands (in black morocco), filled up with 30 blank ff., marbled endpapers, green silk marker (covers sl. soiled). Very nice uncut copy.

Extremely rare elegant ed. by Giambattista Bodoni, (almost) privately printed for the former Leuven theologian and Bishop of Antwerp C.Fr. de Nélis (1736-1798), at that time in exile in Italy. The French text is taken from his unfinished collection "L’aveugle de la montagne", and is followed by an Italian translation by "Doriclea Siciona", pseud. of the Italian poet and translator Clotilde Tambroni (1758-1817).
Ref. Brooks 638. - BB IV:463 (N-92). - Not in Anet, KBR, Limo, etc.