Vita S. Patris Francisci. Liber I.

Sm. 4to: [45]-398-[2] pp. (min. soiling, marg. foxing, frontispiece contains sm. repairs).

Cont. limp overl. vellum, flat spine titled in ink, tail repaired (marg. staining, browned at edges). Nice copy.

Only edition of the first book of the thirteenth-century theologian Bonaventura on the life of St. Francis and the Franciscan Order. Ill.: Half-length image of St Francis and into the plate below an excerpt from the Apocalypse. Ref. Imhof (Moretus) B-47. - Adams B-2388. - BCN 4350. Joined: Zypaeus, Franciscus - Ius Pontificium Novum sive Analytica Postremi [...]. Cologne, Hieratus, 1620. 4to: [12]-457-[34] pp. (toned, occ. foxing). Cont. overl. vellum, flat spine, titled in ink (min. def. at head). First edition of the work on canon law by the great lawyer of the Southern Netherlands, Franciscus Zypaeus (1578-1650). Ref. Dekkers, p. 198, nr. 1. - VD-17. Prov. Libr. stamps.