Live auction - Lot 900
[Prayer book - Hungary]
Officium Rakoczianum, sive varia pietatis exercitia cultui divino, magne matris mariae, sanctorumque patronorum honori debita.
Trnava, Typis coll. academ. soc. Jesu, 1769
Hammer price: €
60
€ 80 / 100
Live bidding (Drouot*) Live bidding (Invaluable*)Bidding is closed
Lot description
12mo: [front.-22]-509-[6] pp.; 12 pl.
Contemp. gilt-orn. sheep, monogram C.S. on front cover, gilt-orn. spine with raised bands, a.e.g.
Rare Hungarian edition of one of the most popular and often republished 17th-c. prayer books written by the Croatian Jesuit Michael Szorsa dedicated to the Hungarian national hero Franz II Rakoczi (1676-1735). Ill. with 12 full-page engr. pl. Printed in 2 col. Title in red & black.
Ref. Cp. DBS VII:1791, BnF (ed. 1763).
More photos
Previous