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BIVERO, Pedro de, or BIVERUS. Sacrum sanctuarium crucis et p…
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80
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BIVERO, Pedro de, or BIVERUS. Sacrum sanctuarium crucis et p…
See original version (French)
Estimate €300 - €400
Voluntary lot
Description
BIVERO, Pedro de, or BIVERUS.
Sacrum sanctuarium crucis et patientiae, crucifixorum et cruciferorum, emblematicis imaginibus laborantium et aegrotantium ornatum. Artifices gloriosonovae artis bene vivendi et moriendi.
Antverpiæ, ex Officina Plantiniana, Balthasar Moretus, 1634.
Fort in-8 square, (12) ff, 678 pp, (10) ff, 70 plates. Contemporary scraped calf, spine ribbed and decorated with stippling, title gilt, spotted edges (jaws cracked, headbands worn, corners rubbed, some leaves browned).
Only edition.
The illustration consists of 70 fine numbered copper engravings by de Mallery after Adriaen Collaert in Antwerp, including heart-shaped emblems; in-text vignettes, an engraved wood mark in fine and an engraved title-frontispiece depicting a Virgin triumphing over Evil with multiple symbols.
A book of devotional emblems, distinguished at the time from books of secular emblems, on the Cross of Christ, by the Spanish Jesuit Bivero (1572-1656), chaplain to the Spanish court in Brussels.
Only 2 entries in the CCFr (BnF and Nice).
Ex libris redacted. Ex libris Derboulier prêtre or Baranger on the pdt.
Backer-Sommervogel, I, 1525-1526. Funck, 280.
JESUITISM. EMBLEMATA.
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