Typus mundi in quo eius calamitates et pericula nec non Diuini, humanique amoris antipathia emblematice proponuntur a RR.C.S.I.A. [= Rhetoribus Collegii Societatis Iesu Antverpiae].

12mo: 240 (= 140)-[3, 1 bl.] pp. (soiled and spotted).

Cont. vellum, spine titled in ink (recased?, new endpapers, soiled). Good copy.

1st ed. of a collection of emblems by the Rhetores of the Antwerp Jesuit College (names on p. 239). Engraved illustrations: title, engr. emblematical portrait of Loyola standing on a world globe with above him a celestial globe, and 32 full-page engr. emblems by Philip de Mallery, each including a representation of a globe (i.a. on p. 200 with angels playing a kind of billiard). Each emblem with Latin, French and Dutch verses. Ref. STCV 3255511. - Landwehr 812. - BCNI 7882. - Daly/Dimler (Jesuit embl.) J.16. - DBS I:448:15 & VIII:1667:15. - Adams/Rawles/Saunders (Fr. embl. books) F.571. Prov. Old ownership entry on title deleted. - Libr. stamps.