Live auction - Lot 749
[Devotion]
Wercken der saligher ghesellen van S. Franciscvs ende mesvsteren van s.t Clara in devchde[n] en mirakelen claer [...].
Antwerp, H. Verdussen, 1622
Hammer price: €
240
€ 100 / 150
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Lot description
8vo: [12 incl. engr. title (of 14)], 621 [= 611]- [13] pp.; 6 pl. (X8 missing, engr. title cut shot at outer margin, some min. soiling).
Contemp. overl. vellum, ink-titled flat spine (stained, spine sl. cracked).
Only (STCV mentions no other ed.) and very rare edition of this devotional work about the life of Francis and Clare of Assisi. Ill. with an engr. title and 6 full-page engr. pl. Printed in Gothic.
Ref. BCNI 7011. - STCV (mentions only incomplete copies).
Prov. "S. Rosa clarisse tot antwerpen" (ms. entry on front pastedown). - "Pater van Reydam Mdbr Recollect" (ms. entry on end flyleaf).
Bound with: Het leven vande salighe vrovwe Margareta van Cortona. Ibid., 1623. 14-[1] pp.; 1 pl. Ref. STCV (2 copies only of which 1 incomplete). - BCNI 7221.