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703 - Acta sanctorum, pro menstrua patroni fortitione selectorum, …
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Acta sanctorum, pro menstrua patroni fortitione selectorum, breviter digesta, iconibusque, orationibus, & scripturis noviter illustrata [...]. Pars I continens prius semestre [- Pars II continens posterius semestre]. 2 vols. in-16: [14]-192 ff, [1]-193/384 ff (spotted, faintly wet, trimmed a little short with minor damage to a few running titles and paginations and to signatures or notations at the end of a few plates). - First Latin edition of this collection of hagiography, each leaf of which contains a medallion-engraved portrait of a saint with a special oration, making a total of 384 portraits engraved by Henri Causé after drawings by J.S. van Loybos. - Ref. DBS VI:180:7. - UniCat (2 ex.: KUL, UGent). - Joint: Tetius, Hieronymus - Aedes Barberinae ad Quirinalem [...]. Rome, Mascardus, 1642. In-f. (some ff. slightly browned, some marg. russ. and rare soiling, slight wetness on 1st and last ff., front. and some plates rebacked). Gilt decorated contemporary vellum (title in black post.). Rare first edition of this book devoted to the collections of Palazzo Barberini, illustrated in intaglio with 19 (out of 28) h.-t. including 1 frontispiece, 1 portrait of Pope Urban VIII (born Maffeo Barberini) with his nephews, and 17 plates including 5 on double page, as well as 4 portraits in the text, 3 full pages of typographed inscriptions in an engraved frame and numerous in-texts. Reference Brunet V:765. - Cicognara 3463. - Berlin Kat. 2662. Prov. Chanoine Henrotte in Liège (aut. s. purchase note from bookseller J.B. Schoepen, Antwerp, 8-02-1868, in French). - Val-Dieu Abbey (stamps and mod. bookplates). (3 vols.)
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