Ventes live - Lot 935
[Devotion - Antwerp imprint]
Leven, lyden ende doodt ons Heeren Iesu Christi in virige meditatien [trsl. from the Latin Heribert Rosweyde S.J.].
Antwerp, H. Aertssens, 1623
€ 160 / 200
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Description du lot
8vo: [8]-391(=417)-[7] pp. (upper margins cut a bit short, no loss of text).
Cont. calf, richly gilt spine on 5 raised bands, leather title label (rubbed, label def.). Good copy.
Rare Dutch trsl. by Rosweyde (1569-1629) of these illustrated meditations on the Life of Christ, originally published in Latin by his fellow Jesuit J. Bourgeois (1574-1653). Engr. ills: title and 76 numb. pls by Boetius à Bolswert. Text printed within double ruled border. Ref. DBS II:34: 3 (Latin) & VII: 203: 19 (Dutch). - BCNI 7176. - STCV. - NUC. - BN-Opale plus. - Not in BL, Matagne (Namur). Prov. "Elisabeth Stijnen 1782" (ms. ownership mention on flyleaf). - Mod. bookpl.