Lot 995
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Histoire memorable et digne de foy, du Sainct Sang de miracle, aduenue au Bois Seigneur Isaac, diocese de Cambray, lez Niuelles, An de grace mil quatre cent & cincq le cinquieme iour de Iuin [...].
Hammer price: € 550
€ 350 / 500
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Lot description
Mons, Ch. Michel, 1593
8vo: [28]-63-[1]-41-[7] pp. (prelims misbound; toned, some marginal soiling).
Contemp. vellum, flat spine (soiled, sm. def., lower endpaper gone). Good copy.
Rare account of a miracle in the Augustinian monastery of Bois-Seigneur-Isaac (Ophain), ed. by Jean d'Arthois. Title woodcut. 2 large woodcuts in-text, a.o. the arms of the dedicatee (Warnier de Davre, abbot of Anchin).
Ref. BT 5965. - Rousselle 58 = Doyen 40.
Prov. Anniken Goossens (contemp. Dutch text on lower flyleaf).