Author: CURTIUS F. Cornelius - Iosephus CASTALIONE :
Title: Virorum illustrium ex ordine eremitarum D. Augustini elogia cum singulorum expressis ad vivum iconibus.
Description: .: 16. Antverpiae (Antwerpen), apud Ioannem Cnobbarum, 1636, in-4°, title -page engraved by Galle after a design by Rubens + xxii nn + 288 pp, with 30 engraved portraits by Corn. Galle after drawings by Jacques Francquart. Bound with; Silvii Antoniani S.R.E. Cardinalis Vita a Iosepho Castalione I.V.D. conscripta; Eiusdem Silvii Orationes XIII, Romae, Apud Iacobum Mascardum, 1610, vii nn + 137 + 3 nn pp, contemporary full leather, raised back, blind tooled covers. Old paper title label at back. (Some wear at corners, upper joint split over 5 cm, traces of ties, but still a good/fine copy). According to the title-page, Curtius belonged to the same order and was a historiographer and "diffinitor generalis". In the margin of the title-page a manuscript ex-dono "Dono D. Joannis Cnobbari"; manuscript ex-libris "Boek van Soctis Iesu Bruxellis ...". (Title-page design see Corpus Rubenianum, Judson & Van de Velde, pp. 68, ills. 23). .

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