armorial binding thou (2 Ergebnisse)

4°, circa 21,5 x 16,5 cm. 2 ff., 121 pp., num. ff. 122-146 Dark green morocco, with de Thou's arms on sides, and monogram on back, gilded fore-edges "Cat. Bibl. Nat., 138, 315. Uncommon collection of early Christian texts including the first edition of the "Commonitorium" of Saint Vincent of Lérins, the anti-Pelagian treatise of St. Phoehadius and several books by St. Faustus. "Fine copy of a scarce book containing a number of valuable texts not easily found elsewhere, thus e.g. the curious poem: De mortibus boum (on a cattle-plague stopped by Christian prayer not pagan sacrifice) by Sanctus Severus Endeleichus." (Goldschmidt List3-237a - this very copy offered in 1932). - Endpapers with some shadow from the glue, later engraved bookplate, inside clean, very slightly rubbed, very nice and elegant, De Thou's copy with his first arms (before his marriage). ".

circa 13,5 x 8 cm. 8 ff., 259 pp., with 2 full-page engraved portraits Contemporary full calf with gilded spine and large gilded arms on both covers "VD17 3:309767H. First Latin edition of the biography of Diego Lainez (1512-1565) the second Superior General of the Society of Jesus after the death of Ignatius of Loyola. Added is the life of the biblical scholar Alfonso Salmeron (1515-1585), one of he first Jesuits who is best known for his Scriptural commentaries. The author Pedro de Ribadeneira (1527-1611) had been a companion of both as well as of Ignatius. - BOUND WITH: 2. Illustriss. Principis Philippae, Lotharingiae Ducissae, &c. Quae marito defuncto S. Clarae ordinem amplexa est, vita. Conscripta a virginibus, quae in eodem cum ea vixerunt Monasterio, idiomate gallico, edita iussu Illustriss. Cardinal. De Vaudemont. Nunc in latinum translata. Köln, Mylius, 1604. 42 ff. VD17 23:312799R. First Latin edition of this life of Philippe de Gueldres (1465-1547), Duchess consort of Lorraine who after the death of her husband and when her son assumed the throne retired in 1519 to the couvent de Clarisses at Pont-à-Mousson. - Armorial binding of Jacques-Auguste de Thou (1553-1617) with his arms and those of his second wife Gasparde de La Chastre, and the conjoint monogram "I A G" (i.e. Jacques Auguste Gasparde). First title with an older small stamp of a convent, some browning but mostly clean, only slightly rubbed. Pretty and very elegant binding. ".