Live auction - Lot 750
[Morals]
Assertio moralis de lectione librorum amatoriorum iunioribus maxime vitanda.
Leuven, H. Hastenius, 1624
Hammer price: €
400
€ 400 / 500
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Lot description
8vo: 51 pp.
Old half leather, marbled covers, gilt flat spine with morocco label (sl. rubbed). Very good copy.
Very rare Leuven ed. of a treatise on (not) reading love stories by young men, written by the Genuese Jesuit Nigrone (1553-1625). It is dedicated, as a New Year’s gift to the students of the Milan Collegium Braidense. Oval woodcut ill. on title.
Ref. Coppens-De Schepper (Hastens) 40. - DBS V:1617:17. - BCNI 7386. - STCV 6693727.
Prov. Mod. bookpl.
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