KEMPIS Thomas à - Jakob MERLO-HORSTIUS ( 1597 - 1644 ) : - Viator Christianus Recta Ac Regia in coelum Via tendens / Ductu Thomae de Kempis ; Cuius de Imitatione Christi, aliaque piissima Opuscula Nova cura recensuit, & Notis illustravit Jacobus Merlo Horstius...

Coloniae Agrippinae, (Köln), Sumptibus Balth. ab Egmont & Sociorum, 1670, small in-8°, in-16°, 11,5 x 6,4 cm, (42)nn pp (with two full page engravings) + 231 pp + (8)nn pp (index) + (1)(bl) ; (6)nn pp (subtitle, full page engraving) + pp 241-517 + (6)nn pp (index) + (1)(bl) + 2 full page engravings. (Complete), bound in contemporary vellum with two brass clasps, manuscript title on spine, edges painted blue, handwritten ex-libris on title ''Monast. Scheijn..''. Upper inner joint partially broken, lower cover with a large stain, some browning at upper corner of last 30 leaves. Still a good preserved clasped binding, with the clasp intact. The second part of the book, with separate title has 1669 as imprint date. (VD17 1;047028Z). This edition not in the catalogue Delaveau-Sordet. .