TORRE, ANTONIUS VAN
Antonii van Torre e societate jesu dialogi familliares litterarum tironibus. In Pietatis, scholae, ludorum exercitationibus utiles, & necessarii.
Antwerpen (Antverpiae), Viduae (widow of) Henrici Thieullier / Maastricht (Trajecti ad Mosam), Jacobi Lekens, 1750, 12mo., contemporary leather binding, blind tooling on front and back, faded gold tooling on spine, 240 pp., Good l Antonius van Torre (1615-1679) became a Jesuit in 1632 and worked at the Sint-Jezuiet College in Aalst (Belgium) as a teacher. This handbook for learning Latin was widely celebrated and reprinted until the 19th century. Handwritten notes on flyleaves (names: Stappaerts, and a calculation in the back), printed in two columns, Latin and Dutch.

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