Les oeuvres chrestiennes de Monsieur de la Serre, Conseiller du Roy en Ses Conseils, et Historiographe de France
Publisher: Chez Iean de la Caille et Chez Michel Dauplet ...
Published: 1648
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 871
Work titles: Works
Notes: Signatures: ã⁴ (-ã1) A-4D⁶ (ã3 signed ã4).

From the library of James Hazen Hyde, with his bookplate; early ownership signature crossed out and ms. note "Polygraphie no. 283" on front endpapers.

Title page, plates, head-pieces and the historiated initials are elaborately illuminated in colors and gilt; text is ruled throughout in brown.

Bound in 18th-century calf, spine panelled gilt, marbled endpapers.
Table of contents: title: (from t.p.). Les pensees de l'eternité; title: Les douces pensees de la mort; title: Le breviaire des courtisans; title: Le tombeau des plaisirs du monde; title: Les sainctes affections de Ioseph & de Marie; title: La vierge mourante sur la Calvaire; title: Le reveille-matin des dames; title: Les delices de la mort; title: Les merveilles de l'amour divin; title: Le miroir qui ne flatte point; title: L'entretien des bons esprits; title: La charité dans son throsne; title: Le tombeau des athees; title: Cantiques sur les attributs de Dieu; title: La tragedie de Thomas Morus; title: La tragedie de saincte Catherine.