Lot n° 1161

Devotion - Order of Malta - L'ECLUSE, F.B. de - La flore sainte, et l'apologie de Flore, et des floristes, contre les critiques. Avec un traité de la culture des principales fleurs. Saumur, Isaac & Henri Desbordes, 1675

Estimation : 200 / 200
Adjudication : Invendu
Description
12mo, cont. vellum (loosening at front, stained), flat spine, later endpapers, [24]-108 pp. (some spotting & dampstaining, occ. thumbing). Good copy. Very rare treatise on Saint Fleur (Flora) of Beaulieu, Virgin of the Order of Malta. She was born about 1300 at Maurs in the diocese of Saint-Flour (France) and took the veil as a girl of 13 in the monastery of the Sisters of St. John of Jerusalem at Beaulieu, in tending the poor and the sick. Full-page engr. ill. "S. Flora Ord. Melitensis". Bookseller's stamp.
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