Vita Roberti Bellarmini politiani e Societe Iesu S.R.E. presbyteri cardinalis archiepiscopi capuae fidei propugnatoris.

8vo: [22]-576-[47-1 bl.] pp. (f. 2*4 missing, some spotting, minor staining and soiling).

Contemp. calf (a few sm. repairs at corners, head & tail, some tiny wormholes), nice large gilt coat of arms on covers within gilt frame (sl. rubbed at back cover), gilt orn. spine with 4 raised bands (joints splitting), red cloth ties. Good copy in a nice binding.

Extensive early biography of Bellarmino (1542-1621), translated from the Italian of G. Fuligatto (1577-1653) by S. Petra Sancta (1590-1647). Without the portrait. Engr. vign. on title. Woodcut mark on last f.
ref. DBS VI:738:7. - BCNI 8347. - STCV.
Prov. Jean IV de Joncquoy (15xx-1650), 48th abbot of the Benedictine St Rictrude Abbey of Marchiennes, between Douai and Valenciennes (on front cover gilt coat of arms of the abbey; on back cover gilt coat of arms of the de Joncquoy family, with motto "Omnia Suaviter"). - "E[x] logica ad physicam nonus Maternus Clerbois [?] Namurcensis" (ms. note on upper flyleaf followed by some verses).