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JESUITS. Imago primi saeculi Societatis Iesu a Provincia Flandro-Belgica eiusdem Societatis repraese

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JESUITS. Imago primi saeculi Societatis Iesu a Provincia Flandro-Belgica eiusdem Societatis repraese

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Auction Date:2012 Oct 20 @ 11:00 (UTC+1)
Location:38 Molesworth Street, Dublin, Dublin, ., Ireland
JESUITS. Imago primi saeculi Societatis Iesu a Provincia Flandro-Belgica eiusdem Societatis repraesentata. Antuerpiae : Ex officina Plantiniana Balthasaris Moreti, anno Societatis saeculari 1640FIRST EDITION, with a fine engraved title-page by Filips Fruytiers, engraved by Galle, 126 large attractive emblems, including 3 hemispherical world maps and the famous "Leone Belgico", engraved by Cornelis Galle and a large woodcut Plantin device on the otherwise blank verso of the final leaf, with the half-title though wanting a front blank fly-leaf, pages (8), 952, (22), folio, contemporary mottled calf, gilt, fully gilt spine, with label, gilt : neatly written contemporary six line presentation inscription to Nicolao Sersanders on the lower blank portion of the recto of the half-title, a small, two-line contemporary book-label "Ex libris Van / Vaerncwyck" and the 19C armorial bookplate of Wm C. Bonaparte Wyse (1826–92, native of Waterford, noted for his strong Unionist views) : the binding a little rubbed but sound, strong and attractive, otherwise a very good to nice, well margined copy. One of the typographic masterpieces of the Plantin Press and an impressive account of the missionary activities of the Jesuits throughout the world during their first century. "Includes accounts of Jesuits in Brazil, Mexico, Canada, etc. Sometimes ascribed to Jean de Tollenaer, but chiefly the work of Joannes Bollandus & Godefridus Henschenius." - Landis, European Americana, 640/104.ANTWERP PRINTED; RELIGION; JESUITS; EMBLEM BOOKS; AMERICA; ; ; ; ; ; ;