Live auction - Lot 889
[Antwerp imprint - Devotion]
Eene[n] claren spiegel der warachtigher Christelijcker maechden [...].
Antwerp, G. de Bonte, 1551
€ 500 / 700
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Lot description
8vo: [4]-239-[1] ff. (age-toned, min. marg. soiling).
Cont. calf, spine on 4 raised bands, remains of ties, marbl. endpapers (rubbed, corners bumped, some def., rep. at head and tail, blindstamping faded). Good copy.
1st edition (repr. 1562, 1569 etc.) of an extensive devotional treatise for Christian virgins, by the Antwerp Franciscan Joachim van der Putte (1526-1581). Woodcut ills: vign. on title with monogram "I V P", 20 half-page & 10 smaller woodcut illustrations in text, woodcut mark at the end. In gothic type. Ref. BT 4616. - BCNI 2304. - Machiels P-1251. - Anet (2). - Not in Adams, De Troeyer, Matagne (Namur). Prov. Ms. on verso title "dezen boeck hoort toe aen [?] covent van sijere huys".