Online auction - Lot 173

MOLANUS, Joannes

De historia SS. imaginum et picturarum, pro vero earum usu contra abusus [...]. Oratio de Agnis Dei, et alia quaedam [ed.] Joannes Natalis Paquot.

Leuven, Typis Academicis, 1771


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Lot description

4to: xxxi-[1]-676-[3-1 bl.] pp. (some browning).

Contemp. sheep, gilt orn. spine with raised bands (fully rubbed, corners and joints, def. at head and tail).

Considerably annotated edition (1st ed. 1570) of a standard work on Christian art and symbolism by the Louvain theologian J. Molanus (1533-1585), ed. by his 18th-c. successor J.N. Paquot (1722-1803). He inserted supplements, one of the most interesting of these is a detailed list of one hundred and forty books on art arranged chronologically and giving printing places and formats.
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Lot 173

De historia SS. imaginum et picturarum, pro vero earum usu contra abusus [...]. Oratio de Agnis Dei, et alia quaedam [ed.] Joannes Natalis Paquot.

MOLANUS, Joannes

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