Le chemin asseuré de paradis enseigné par nostre seigneur Jesus Christ, en ces paroles : Si quelqu'un veut venir après moy qu'il renonce à soy-mesme & porte la croix, & me suive. Ou avec des exemples & documens familiers l'on monstre à toutes sortes d'estats, & conditions de personnes à renoncer à leur propre volonté...

Second edition of this French translation. At the end of the work "Achevé d'imprimer pour la seconde fois le 7 juin 1622." Illustrated with an engraved title-page and a frontispiece. Absent from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France which holds a copy from 1725 published by Herissant, absent from French and English catalogues.
Full brown speckled calf binding mid-19th century, spine with raised bands in Jansenist style. Title on black calf label. Title-page and engraved title reinforced with a paper strip in the right margin. Some scattered foxing. Some marginal dampstaining, notably at the top of the title-page.
This work translated from Italian is a treatise on the passions and abnegation of the will typical of the 17th century, but under the guidance of the New Testament. It is a mixture of Stoicism and Christian morality.
Engraved bookplate in a medallion: Picard Avenionsis.