Speculum vanitatis sive Ecclesiastes soluta ligataque oratione dilucidatus.

TOLLENARIUS, Joannes

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Antwerp, Plantin Press (B. Moretus), 1635

4to: [12]-842-[29, 1 bl.] pp. (sl. toned).

Contemp. overl. vellum, flat spine, sp. edges (a few sm. stains on cover). Very nice copy.

First edition (repr. Augsburg/Dillingen 1688) of an extensive work by the Bruges Jesuit Jan de Tollenaere (1582-1653), written in a mixture of Latin verse and prose, and dedicated to Nicolaas Rockox. Fine engr. allegorical title by Karel de Mallery after Cornelis Schut (i.a. showing Death shooting an arrow).
Ref. DBS VIII:83-84:3. - STCV.

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