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BIVERO, Pedro de, or BIVERUS.
See original version (French)
13
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BIVERO, Pedro de, or BIVERUS.
See original version (French)
Estimate €150 - €200
Voluntary lot
Description
BIVERO, Pedro de, or BIVERUS.
Sacrum sanctuarium crucis et patientiae, crucifixorum et cruciferorum, adorned with emblematic images of labourers and the sick. Masters of the glorious new art of living and dying well.
Antwerp, from the Plantinian Press, Balthasar Moretus, 1634.
Large square 8vo, (12) folios, 678 pages, (10) folios, 70 plates. Contemporary grained calfskin, spine ribbed and decorated with dotted lines, gilt title, speckled edges (gouge marks, trimmed caps, rubbed corners, a few browned leaves).
Only edition.
The illustrations consist of 70 fine numbered intaglio copperplate engravings by de Mallery after Adriaen Collaert in Antwerp, including heart-shaped emblems; in-text vignettes, a woodcut mark engraved at the end, and an engraved frontispiece title page depicting the Virgin triumphing over Evil, featuring numerous symbols.
A book of devotional emblems, distinguished at the time from secular ‘emblemata’ on the Cross of Christ, by the Spanish Jesuit Bivero (1572–1656), chaplain to the Spanish court in Brussels.
Only two entries in the CCFr (BnF and Nice).
Ex libris redacted. Ex libris of Father Derboulier or Baranger on the title page.
JESUITISM. EMBLEMATA.
Sommervogel, I, 1525–1526. Funck, 280.
See original version (French)
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