Live auction - Lot 635
[Leuven - Devotion]
"Geestelyke Uytbreydinge der litanie van Onze Lieve Vrouwe van Loretten. Op rym gestelt tot geestelyk vermaek en vermeerdering der devotie tot dezelve alderheyligste Maegd ende Moeder Gods Maria".
[Leuven], 1792
€ 200 / 250
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Lot description
16mo: [58] pp.; brown ink on wove paper, in Dutch (provenance issue erased on title with some sm. holes in paper).
Contemp. red morocco, gilt dentelle on boards, gilt-orn. spine with raised bands, a.e.g. (sl. rubbed). In contemp. mottled sheep slip-case. Good condition.
Nice prayer book in Flemish verse, ill. with a suite of 57 beautiful engravings by Catharina Klauber, signed "Klauber Cath. Sc. et exc. A.V. [Augusta Vindelicorum]".
Prov. "Déezen boek bleeft [deleted name] benomen voor eenen prys van neerstigheyd doende haere eerste communie in de parochiale kerke van d heylige Gertrudis binnen Loven [...]" (ms. entry on 1st p.). - Ivan Plissart (mod. armorial bookpl.).
Joined: La Martinière, Bruzen - Fables heroïques, renfermant les plus saines maximes de la politique et de la morale [...]. Amsterdam & Berlin, J. Neaulme, 1754. 2 vol., sm. 8vo. Contemp. mottled sheep (rubbed). Engraved ill.: 2 front. and 16 in-text, unsigned. Ref. Cohen 692. Prov. Baron Snoÿ (contemp. ms. entries).