Live auction - Lot 1427
[Devotion - Duffel]
Onse L. Vrouwe van Duffel ofte van Goeden Wil. Dat is De wonderheden van Maria soo in het doen vinden ende hervinden van haer miraculeus beeldt als int gunstig uytstorten van wonderbare genesingen tot Duffel.
Antwerp, Widow P. Jacobs, 1717
€ 150 / 200
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Lot description
8vo: [2]-228-[4] pp.
19th-c. red quarter shagreen, gilt spine with 4 raised bands. Good copy.
First edition. Ill. with engr. title showing the discovery of the statue of the Virgin in a willow tree by two cowherd children (in 1637), surrounded by medallions showing the 14 miracles of healing, and 1 full-page pl. depicting the statue.
Ref. Bowen (Marian pilgrimage sites) DUF-5. - BCNI 17470. - STCV.
Joined: [Griffet, Henri] - Historie der mirakuleuze hostien bekent onder den naem van 't alderh. sacrament van mirakel [...]. Brussels, J. Van den Berghen, 1770. 8vo: 132 pp. (browning, front. missing, piece of blank paper of margin b6 missing and underl.). Later dark cloth (covers loosening), flat spine, marbled endpapers. Treatise on the Brussels anti-Jewish medieval legend of the "Miraculous Sacrament" (1370) by the French Jesuit H. Griffet (1698-1771). Ill. with 21 (of 26?) pl. by L. Fruijtiers, incl. 3 folding. Title signed by publ. Ref. STCV. - STCN. - DBS III:1823:26 (French ed.). (2 vol.)