Live auction - Lot 1281
Live auction - Lot 1281
[Religious orders - Liessies]
Abregé des vies des principaux fondateurs des religions de l’eglise, representez dans le choeur de l’Abbaie de S. Lambert de Liessies en Haynaut, avec les maximes de chaque fondateur.
Antwerp, M. Nutius, 1634
Hammer price: €
650
€ 200 / 300
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Lot description
4to: [2]-300-[3, 1 bl.] pp. (missing typogr. title; some minor soiling, worming in fore-edge margin of final ff.).
Contemp. sheep, gilt spine with 5 raised bands and morocco label (rubbed, 1 corner def., front joint starting to split at head). Good copy.
Original ed. of a collection of biographies of founders of religious orders (incl. St Ignatius of Loyola) by the French Jesuit Binet (1569-1639). With 39 full-page engr. portraits by C. & Th. Galle after paintings in the Benedictine St Lambert Abbey at Liessies (Hainaut). Engr. title by J. Galle with a view of the abbey church.
Ref. STCV. - DBS I:1500-1501:39.
Prov. P. I. B. de Beauvais Raseau, S.T.D. in Acad. Lov. (18th-c. bookpl.).