Lot 10
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Le voyage du chevalier errant [...].
CARTIGNY, Jean de, O.Carm
€ 250 / 350
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Lot description
Antwerp, J. Bellerus, 1557
8vo: [8]-171-[1] ff. (some traces of use, occasional staining, blank top corner f. 53 torn off touching a few letters, last f. cut short and underlaid).
Cont. limp overl. vellum (ties gone). Good copy.
First edition of a mystical allegorical novel by the Hainaut Carmelite J. de Cartigny/Cartheny (1520-1580). It probably inspired Bunyan’s “Pilgrim’s Progress”. Woodcut mark on title. Ref. BT 581. - BCNI 2586 = Rosier (Carmel) CXXXIV/313j. - Ind. Aurel. 132.733. - Pettegree FB 9005 = NB 6836. - Not in Adams, STC Dutch/French (BL).