Mar 07, 2019 - Sale 2501

Sale 2501 - Lot 135

Price Realized: $ 750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(JESUITS.) [Bolland, Jean, S. J.] Imago primi saeculi Societatis Jesu. 124 engraved emblems in text by Cornelius Galle. [8], 952, [22] pages, including half-title and engraved title by Galle after Philippe Fruitiers. Folio, 368x231 mm, contemporary vellum boards with gilt Jesuit monogram on covers and modern cloth ties, recased, endpapers renewed; half-title soiled and chipped along top edge, offsetting on page 1 from engraving on facing page, contents otherwise generally clean. wide-margined copy. Antwerp: ex Officina Plantiniana Balthasari Moreti, 1640

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first edition of a collection of prose, verse, and emblems published to mark the centennial of the founding of the Jesuit order. Funcke, page 341; Praz, pages 185-90 and 380.