Adnotationes et meditationes in Evangelia quae in sacrosancto missae sacrificio toto anno leguntur [...]. Accessit & index historiam ipsam Evangelicam in ordinem temporis vitae Christi distribens. Secunda editio.

Folio: [6-2 bl.]-636-[5-3 bl.], [10-2 bl.] pp.-153 pl. (spotting, occ. browning, blank lower margin of 2nd part soiled, some sm. tears in blank margin underlaid).

17th-c. maroon morocco (sl. rubbed, corners bumped), covers with gilt central jesuit stamp within gilt- and blind-stamped borders, rebacked with 19th-c. gilt calf spine (def. at tail, joints rubbed), clasps and catches gone, a.e.g. Good copy.

Second edition (first 1594) of the famous pictorial Life of Christ by the Spanish Jesuit H. Nadal (1507-1580). With large and detailed Gospel illustrations by the Wierix brothers at Antwerp, J. & A. Collaert and Ch. de Mallery, most after the Italian painter Bernardo Passari, a few after Maarten De Vos. Engr. ill.: 2 titles ("Adnotationes et meditationes" and "Evangelicae historiae imagines ex ordine Evangeliorum" by Wierix after M. de Vos dated 1593) and 153 numb. full-page plates by H., J. and A. Wierix, Adrian Collaert and others + 7 full-page unnumb. ornamental pl. and numerous engr. vignettes in Renaissance style (some repeated).
Ref. BT 8784. - Adams N-55/56. - Pettegree NB 22119. - DBS V:1518:1. - Mauquoy-Hendrickx 1989-2141 & pp. 491-496. - Not in STC Dutch (BL).
Prov. Antonio Giacomini Tebalducci Malespini (ownership entry on title).