Oct 13, 2022 - Sale 2617

Sale 2617 - Lot 73

Price Realized: $ 292
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
Aranda, Gabriel de (1633-1709)
Vida y Milagros del B. Estanislao Kostka.

Sevilla: Thome de Dios Mira[n]da, 1678.

First edition, quarto, title page printed within an elaborate frame of type ornaments and printed in red and black (marginal paper repair on verso of title, supporting marginal losses from abrasions), one text leaf with horizontal tear, tears repaired to each leaf in final signature, final leaf with piece torn away from foot of margin and repaired, 7 3/4 x 5 1/2 in.

Saint Stanislaus Kostka (1550-1568), a Polish novice in the Jesuit order, passed away as a teenager shortly after he took holy orders. He was beatified in 1605 and canonized by the Holy See in 1726.

Very rare at auction; Worldcat locates seven copies in libraries worldwide.