Vita S. Joannis Nepomuceni sigilli sacramentalis protomartyris [...]. Nunc aucta ex actis processuum, ipsaque solemnitate canonizationis [...] illustrata iconismis XXXIII. [...].

BALBINUS, Bohuslaus

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Augsburg, J.A. Pfeffel, s.d

4to: [4]-76 pp. (few spots, few sm. stains).

19th-c. cardboard (loose).

Undated and unrecorded (?) edition (1st 1725, 2nd 1730) of this biography of St John of Nepomuk (c. 1345-1393), the patron saint of Bohemia, written by the Bohemian Jesuit Balbinus (1621-1688). Ill. with 33 numb. full-page engravings.
Ref. Cp. DBS I:802-803:22, BL, VD-18.
Prov. "a Pierre Carpentier fils Yseghem 1851 / - B Devos / son grand oncle" (ms. note).