Apr 12, 2010 - Sale 2210

Sale 2210 - Lot 139

Price Realized: $ 420
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
SUCQUET, ANTOINE, S.J. Via vitae aeternae iconibus illustrata . . . editio sexta. 31 (of 32) engraved plates by Boetius van Bolswert; lacks plate 31. [16], 1129, [41] pages, including engraved title. Thick 8vo, old vellum with later cloth ties, front cover detached, with first gathering adhered; occasional soiling, blank strips of paper pasted over inscriptions at top and bottom of title, lacks free endpapers. Antwerp: Henricus Aertssius, 1625
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First published in 1620. Praz, page 506. With an extra suite of all but 2 of the plates (in a different state, lacking numbers 1 and 31), which are tipped in facing the same plates in the book. Also bound in is the engraved title from the 1623 edition in Flemish, with an early 19th-century owner's inscription on the verso.