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Title: SACRI PERIPATETICI Sive de Sacris Ecclesiae Catholoicae Processionibus + RABBINI ET HERODES Seu de tota Rabbinorum Gente + AURORAE ENCOMOIM Soluta Oratione + AURORAE ENCOMIUM Versibus Elegiacis
Description: Coloniae Agrippinae {Koln] +Moguntiae [Mainz], Bernardi Gualtheri + Balthasar Lippii + Officina Birckmannica/Hermann Mylii 1607,1607,1606,1607 Each title page has a woodcut printer's mark first two with motto & bell-flower garland + last two with chocken . Small. Octavo blindstamped pig with 2 functioning clasps on 3 raised bands to spine. Oval on front cover containing 2 saints one being boiled? The other in cowl carrying a book & branch 2 coates of arm on shields above. Text reads "Carthusiensis 1591 Patroni Monaster in Prvell Prope Ratisbonam ordinis" Lover coveroval with pretty floral design booth covers with multiple rules ,corner ornaments and twisted interlaces. All edges red with 3 staggered markers to fore-edge to denote the beginning of each book. First title page with 2 inked names -one crossed out + Kloster Schewarzenberg stamp to blank margin. Pastedown with dated ownership, fly leaf loose but present, short titles of the 3 others texts listed on it to face first title. [viii incl.titlepage +235pp +[3pp=to reader & errata + blank with fore-edge marker 2nd title with indecipherable 4 letters in ink at foot of page. 291pp includes titlepage +[1p=errata] 3rd title page with ink name cropped 106pp including title + [2p=index] + [51pp including titlepage all without numbers but signatures continuous with previous item. Some 6 leaves are repaired in the blank lower corner with archival tissue where there were worm tracks. A few isolated worm holes. Usual tanning but paper still crisp and clean. A lovely binding and neat typography. *Serarius was Professor of Exegesis at Mainz university, and a strong supporter of the counter reformation. This is a collection of his religious writings, in contrast to his more famous history of Mainz. Book one defends the sacred processions of the Catholic Church.

Keywords: Four works in Fine rolled pig binding

Price: GBP 580.00 = appr. US$ 828.23 Seller: Abbey Antiquarian Books
- Book number: V75392

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