Live auction - Lot 807
[Antwerp imprint]
Precationum piarum enchiridion, ex Sanctorum Patrum, & illustrium, tum veterum, tum recentium auctorum scriptis, & Precationum libellis, concinnatum [...] Editio ultima, auctior [...] & pulcerrimis imaginibus illustrior.
Antwerp, Joannes Bellerus, [ca. 1575]
€ 450 / 600
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Lot description
16mo: [48]-521-[7] pp. (some usual spotting).
Contemp. maroon calf over wooden boards (corners rubbed), spine on 4 raised bands (lacking part of leather on lower spine), brass clasps on leather tongues (catches gone), green edges.
Rare ed. of a popular collection of Latin prayers by the Brabant priest and teacher S. Verepaeus (1522-1598). Woodcut ill. on title and some 99 woodcuts in text representing biblical scenes and characters or emblematic figures. This undated ed. retakes the dedication to the bishop and cardinal Gérard van Groesbeek from the 1567 ed.
Ref. BT 9290. - Pettegree NB 30518. - BCNI 3541. - Adams B-381.