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Item #54481 [THE ASCETIC HERO OF MIRACLES: A VISUAL VITA] [La vita e miracoli del Gloriosissimo...

[THE ASCETIC HERO OF MIRACLES: A VISUAL VITA] [La vita e miracoli del Gloriosissimo Padre Santo Francesco di Paola] Engraved title: Nacque questo glorioso padre santo Francesco di Paola nell' anno del signore M. CCCC. XVI. (...) la cui vita qui si descrive [The Life and Miracles of the Most Glorious Holy Father Francis of Paola. Engraved title: This glorious holy father, Francis of Paola, was born in the Year of Our Lord 1416 (...), whose life is here described].

[Baratta, Alessandro (artist) and Orazio Nardino (text)].

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

Price: €2,500.00

[FRANCISCAN ICONOGRAPHY BY THE DÜRER CIRCLE – THE PREACHERS OF POVERTY AND SILVER MINING BY THE HABSBURGS AND THE FUGGERS] Die Legend des heyligen vatters Francisci [The Legend of Saint Francis].

Bonaventura [de Balneoregio; born Giovanni di Fidanza], author. – [Wolf Traut], artist. – [Agricola, born Daniel Meyer, presumed translator].

Nuremberg and Schwaz: Hieronymus Höltzel printed for Caspar Rosenthaler, 1512. Octavo (20 × 15.3 cm). Modern crushed morocco over five raised bands and with gold-embossed title to spine; [212] pp. with 57 woodcuts from 51 blocks by Wolf Traut. Front pastedown with exlibris of collector and cultural patron Renate König;..... More

Price: €9,500.00

[THE ANIMATED MARIAN FIGURE OF THE RECONQUISTA] Breve compendio del origen, y milagros de la prodigiosa imagen de N. Sra de Lluch [Brief summary of the origin and miracles of the prodigious image of Our Lady of Lluch].

Busquets, Rafael.

[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

Price: €800.00

[VELVET, SILK, LINEN, GOLD AND SILVER – A PROTECTIONIST AND ZWINGLIAN ORDER OF MATERIALS] Ordnung wider den Pracht Und Uberfluß in Kleideren, Wie auch Andere Excessen und Uppigkeiten In der Statt Berm [Order against pomp and extravagance in clothing, as well as other excesses and extravagances in the city of Berm].

Cantzley Bern [State Chancellery of Bern].

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

Price: €1,500.00

[ANCIENT ARCHITECTURE – CHRISTIAN ARCHAEOLOGY – COUNTER-REFORMATION] De sacris aedificiis a Constantino Magno constructis. Synopsis Historica [On the Sacral Buildings Constructed by Constantine the Great. Historical Summary].

Ciampini, Giovanni [Giustino].

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

Price: €1,650.00

[THE HOLY VIRGIN IN THE ROCAILLE – AESTHETICS OF THE JESUIT COUNTER-REFORMATION] Paraphrase des litanies de Notre Dame de Lorette, par un serviteur de Marie. Premiere edition [Paraphrase of the litanies of Our Lady of Loreto, by a servant of Mary. First edition].

Klauber, [Johann Baptist and workshop, engraver – Gottfried Bernhard Göz and Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner, artists].

Augsburg: Frères Klauber, 1781. Small octavo (17.3 × 10.5 cm). Contemporary red morocco with rich ornamental and floral gilt tooling to spine, boards, edges, and turn-ins, with all edges gilt; 144 pp. with engraved frontispiece and 56 copper plates for each invocation of the Lauretan Litany. Bookplate of the Burgundian..... More

Price: €2,650.00

[AN ADMIRER OF THE HOLY SAVONAROLA – NO COPIES IN NORTH AMERICA] Vita della venerabile serva di Dio Suor Catarina de Ricci: Fondatrice del Monastero di San Vincenzo di Prato [Life of the Venerable Servant of God Sister Catarina de Ricci: Founder of the Monastery of St. Vincent in Prato].

Marchese, Domenico Maria.

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

Price: €2,000.00

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