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

Bern: Hoch-Oberkeitliche Druckerei, 1715. Small quarto (19.9 × 15.6 cm). Later colored paper wrappers; 44 pp. with a title woodcut of the Bern coat of arms. Toned and slightly fox-stained, with punched hole along the top edge and a silk ribbon threaded through. Early printing of this Bernese regulation on..... More

Paris: Henault for Langlois, 1644. Folio (29.5 × 21 cm). Red marocco binding in the style of the seventeenth century, with spine and edges richly gilt; 81, [1] pp. with 17 copper engravings in the pagination (including engraved title and 8 full-page engravings) – Appended text: Paris: n.p., 1644. 9..... 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

Various places and publishers, between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. Folios (34.5 × 22.5 cm). Two contemporary leather bindings with gold and blind embossing; approximately 700 prints in various printing techniques and sizes ranging from 4 × 3 to 33 × 20 cm, most of which are mounted on sturdy..... More