Live auction - Lot 1264
[Brussels]
Le triomphe de l’amour parfait ou Les amans vertueux et constans, histoire chrétienne, divisé en trois parties.
Brussels, Chr. le Vray, 1698
€ 200 / 240
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Lot description
12mo: [1-1 bl.-2]-220 pp. (toned, date line of imprint cut off and underlaid).
19th-c. gilt red quarter morocco, spine with 4 raised bands, yellow endpapers. Good copy.
Extr. rare (probably fake) Brussels ed. of an anonymously publ. historical novel. It is situated in early Christianity (4th c.), starring saints Paula and Marina, and using narratives from the Golden Legend and similar collections of lives of saints. Woodcut orn. on title.
Ref. WorldCat (2: BnF, Lyon). - Not in KBR, BL etc.