Description:
Jesuit Authors, Six Titles in Six Volumes. Including: Johann Niess's Alphabetum Christi, Dilingae: Federle, 1670, 12mo, new parchment over old boards; Balduini Cabilliavi E Soc. Iesu Magdalena, Antwerp: Plantin, 1625, octavo, engraved vignette on title, full later leather; Hermannus Hugo's Pia Desideria Tribus Libris Comprehensa, Antwerp: Lucam de Potter, [1676], engraved title and engraved vignettes throughout, 12mo, bound in full contemporary sheepskin over wood boards, lacking one clasp, the other damaged, back board split vertically; Tommaso Ceva's Jesus Puer Poema, Venice: Girardi, 1732, octavo, contemporary boards; [and] Gautruchio's Philosophiae ac Mathematicae Totius Institutio, Cadomi: Cavelier, 1656, 12mo, with two engraved anatomical illustrations, limp parchment, becoming detached from textblock. (6)
Estimate $200-300
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Keywords
Pia Desideria Tribus Libris Comprehensa, Jesus Puer Poema, Johann Niess, AntwerpJohn Dorfman
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