De BOUGLERS, Pierre, Seigneur de Bretencourt
La Milice du Courtisan, où l'on void le tombeau de ses étendarts
In-12°, [xvi]-174 pp, index missing (pp. 175-179). Mottling (faint). Bound in granite calf, marbled endpapers, spine gilt, red title-piece
Provenance: Collection Quarré-Reybourbon Lille. Missing from BCNI. Very rare first edition from the presses of Barthelemy Bardou, printer in Douai between 1617 and 1641. This treatise of devotion is divided into eight "étandarts" each supposed to fight a particular vice: impiety, ignorance of God, idleness, lechery, feintise, slander, etc.
Douay
Barthelemy Bardou
1632
