Live veiling - Lot 754
[Antwerp imprint - Devotion]
Paradisus animae fidelis [...].
Antwerp, G. Montanus, 1540
€ 350 / 450
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Beschrijving lot
8vo: clxii (= 163)-[1] ff. (sl. toned, blank bottom corner f. 52 strengthened).
Mod. half vellum, flat spine, fore-edge titled. Good copy.
Rare early edition of a devotional treatise by the Benedictine monk and mystic Louis de Blois (1506-1566). Title within woodcut border. Woodcut mark at the end. The final part “Officium horarum de Iesu et Maria, breve ac pium” (ff. 154-162) printed in red and black. Ref. NKr 426. - BCNI 1670. - Pettegree NB 5189. - Not in Adams, BnF, STC Dutch (BL). Prov. Ownership entries on title deleted. Joined: Id. - Institutio spiritualis non parum utilis iis, qui ad vitae perfectionem contendunt. Itemque Exercitium piarum precationum. Accessit Apologia pro D. Ioanne Thaulero, una cum breui Regula tyronis spiritualis. Louvain, S. Gualtherus & J. Bathen for A.M. Bergaigne, 1553. 8vo: [14]-122 (= 121)-[1] ff. (toned, occ. soiling or staining). Cont. blind-decorated calf (rebacked, rubbed, endpapers renewed). Good copy. Printed in italics. Ref. BT 5275. - BCNI 2365. - Pettegree NB 5201. - Not in Adams, BnF, STC Dutch. Prov. Old names on front flyleaf. (2 vol.)