Lot 1313
Live veiling
Via vitae aeternae. Iconibus illustrata per Boetium a Bolswert [6th enl. ed.].
SUCQUET, Antonius, S.J.
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Lot description
Antwerp, H. Aertssens, 1625
8vo: [16]-1129-[41] pp. (some soiling or staining, minor worming in blank bottom margin of final ff.).
Contemp. calf, red edges (loosening, rubbed, head def.).
Later ed. (1st 1620) of a popular devotional emblem book by the Mechelen Jesuit Sucquet (1574-1627). Engr. title and 32 numbered full-page plates by Boetius à Bolswert.
Ref. Landwehr (Low Countries) 762. - DBS VII:1690:1.
Prov. Antonius Joannes Philippus Wemaer (1812-1875), Bruges priest and colleague of G. Gezelle (armorial bookplate). - Libr. stamp and ticket removed.