Historiae de vitis sanctorum, pars prima [- secunda] [...].

Folio: [36]-491-[1 bl.], [4]-479-[1] pp. (toned, title loosening, occ. marg. dampstaining).

Old blind-decorated leather, gilt spine on 6 raised bands, a.e.g., marbl. endpapers (rubbed, joints split, gilding soiled). Good copy.

Rare Louvain edition (1st 1543) of an extensive collection of saints’ lives by the Italian Cardinal Lippomano (1500-1559). Woodcut mark on title, part title, and at the end. Ref. BT 8662. - Pettegree NB 19232. - Cp. Adams L-746 & BCNI 3301 (M. Verhasselt issue). - Not in STC Dutch (BL). Prov. Old ownership entries on 1st title (deleted). - Bibliotheca Lindesiana, i.e. the collection of James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford and 9th Earl of Balcarres (1847-1913), one of the most impressive private collections in Britain at the time, both for its size and for the rarity of some of the materials it contained (armorial bookpl.).