The etching was printed as an illustration in: Philippe François Taisne. Het leven, apostolycke deughden, gheduerighe mirakelen ende glorie vanden H. Franciscvs Xaverivs vande Societeyt Jesu, grooten apostel van Indien ende Iaponien, seer wonderbaer in syn leven, ende naer syne doodt : naementlyck, in het verwecken van twee-en-vyftigh dooden [The..... More

N.p.: n.p. [after 1796]. Quarto (27.5 × 20.5 cm). Contemporary decorative paper interim wrappers; with 64 copper-engraved plates on wove paper by Alessandro Baratta. Without the title page of the earlier editions; front wrapper with an old ownership inscription in ink; rear wrapper becoming detached; leaves occasionally with faint foxing;..... More

[Mallorca]: Imprenta de la Viuda Cerdà, 1783. Small octavo (14.6 × 10 cm). Contemporary full vellum; [20], 225, [1] pp. with woodcut frontispiece image of Our Lady of Lluch. Old shelf-label to front pastedown; leaves and binding appear to have been cleaned; the spine bears a faint shadow of a...... More

Rome: Johann Jakob Komarek, 1693. Quarto (33.3 × 23.3 cm). Contemporary vellum binding; [16], 217, [3] pp. With engraved frontispiece (drawn by Giovanni Battista Lenardi and engraved by Arnoldo van Westerhout) and 35 copper engraved plates, 23 of which are folded and 4 double-page. Occasional leaves with tiny wormholes and..... More

Vicenza, Giovanni Rossi, 1800. Octavo (23.5 × 18.5 cm). Contemporary interim binding covered with marbled paper; 176 pp. with a frontispiece by Pietro Vitali after Franc. Menageot, a copperplate engraving, a mezzotint plate, and an engraved folding plate, as well as numerous text woodcuts of seals and notarial marks. Light..... More

Genoa: Per gli Heredi de Girol. Bartoli, 1595. Small octavo (14.7 × 9.7 cm). Contemporary full limp vellum with title to spine, upper, and lower edge; [16], 470, [40] pp. Woodcut vignette to title depicting the saint receiving the stigmata; three additional small illustrations, one of which repeats the title..... More

Bologna: Giacomo Monti, 1668. Small quarto (23 × 17 cm). Contemporary elaborately decorated and richly gilt morocco binding with the armorial supralibros of Pope Clement X. on the front and back covers, from the orbit of the Andreoli/Rospigliosi bindery, with gilt edges; [16], 148 pp. with engraved title page, 14..... More

Rome: Nella Stamperia della Rev. Camera Apostolica, 1683. Small quarto (20.9 × 14.8 cm). Early nineteenth-century quarter vellum, marbled paper covered boards; [10], 441, [1] pp. Text with occasional foxing and toning, a few pages more heavily; a few small stains and spotting to margins; else good or better. First..... More

Munich: Joh. Jacob Vötter, 1754. Small octavo (16.5 × 10 cm). Contemporary blind-embossed white calf; edges speckled red; [28], 294 [recte: 267] pp.. with engraved frontis by G. S. Rösch after L. Weis depicting the saint. The pagination jumps from 273 to 291; leaves slightly toned and fox-stained; hinges and..... More

Augsburg: printed by Peter Detleffsen for Jeremias Wolff, 1716–1760. Folio (34 × 22 cm). Half leather bindings of the early nineteenth century with labels and gilt to spines; [20] (index); 32; [68]; 18; 18; 16; 12; [16]; 39, [1]; 26; 24; 18; 42; 10; 8; 84, [4]; [20]; 18; 28;..... More