Live auction - Lot 977
[Trent Council - Forbidden books]
Le sainct, sacré, universel et general Concile de Trente [...] [trsl. from the Latin Gentian Hervet].
Leuven, J. Bogardus, 1564
€ 200 / 250
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Lot description
8vo: 228 ff. (dampstained, single wormholes through 1st quires).
Cont. gilt calf, spine on 5 raised bands (somewhat worn). Good copy.
Extr. rare Leuven issue of the French translation of the decrees of the Council of Trent, published by the Antwerp printer Willem Silvius. With Silvius’ woodcut mark at the end! Ref. BT 6682 [1: Bruges]. - Pettegree FB 49759 = NB 29636. - Not in Adams, Limo, STC Dutch & French (BL). Prov. “Ce lieure apartient a catelyne thans religieuse. Ten ghebruke van ghemete van Nieuwenbossche ...”. - "J.F. Vandevelde" (1743-1823) (old ownership entries on lower endpaper). - Mod. bookpl. Joined: Canones et Decreta Sacrosancti [...] Concilii Tridentini [...]. Adiectus est Index Librorum prohibitorum [...] [2nd corr. ed.]. Dillingen, S. Mayer, 1565. 8vo: 274-[6]-40 ff. (some thumbing). Old leather, gilt spine, red edges, marbled endpapers (rubbed, clumsily repaired). Ref. VD-16 K-2038. - Bucher (Dillingen) 207. - Adams C-2804. - Not in STC German (BL). Prov. Ex libris Henrici Vanden Block ... Ecclesiae DD. Michaelis & Gudilae Bruxellis Capellani & J.B.G. Jacobs Lumnius, Ord. Cap. Brux. S.P.C. (old bookpls). (2 vol.)