Live auction - Lot 896
[Devotion - Hagiography]
Historia de la Virgen Maria [...].
Antwerp, Fr. Canisio, 1652
€ 100 / 120
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Lot description
In-f° : [16, engr. title incl.]-889-[61] pp.; 1 pl. (damp stains, tear strengthened to p. 22, foxing, some ff. +/- sl. browned, scattered stains).
Contemp. overl. vellum, flat spine with ink title (somewhat soiled, ties lacking, front joint partly split).
First edition illustrated with 1 engraved title and the portrait of the dedicatee, the Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria.
Ref. Peeters-Fontainas 633.
Prov. Convent of the Carmelites in Namur, 1659 (ms. ownership entry). - Ms. entry on upper flyleaf.