Het leven van de heylige Theresia door haer selven beschreven. Nieuwe oversettinge.

12mo: [front.-8]-367-[7] pp.

Contemp. mottled calf, gilt orn. spine with 4 raised bands, red edges (corners sl. rubbed, head def.). Kept in a 19th-c. tooled silver mobile binding.

Rather rare edition on the life of Teresa of Ávila. Illustrated with an engr. front.
Presented here with a silver mobile binding, not necessarily designed for this work but quite fitting. In three attached parts featuring birds of paradise and the Holy Spirit in a floral environment with centered angel's head. Silver marks: "jsb" stamped on inner closing piece and both the covers together with a lion passant and a leopard's head. Being the Victorian silversmith John Septimus Beresford (fl. 1865-1889). Silver binding dated "Nov. 1891" to a certain "Margaret", with stamped monogram "IHS" on the spine and "Agnus Dei qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis" on the back.
Ref. STCV (1).
Prov. "Petrus Gummaerus Claes", "becomen voor het opzeggen van de een-en veertig lessen van den catechismus in 't jaer 1776" (ms. entry on pastedown). - "Margaret" (stamped on closing piece silver binding).