Nov 11, 2008 - Sale 2162

Sale 2162 - Lot 88

Price Realized: $ 1,680
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(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 (cropped in outer margin). Folio, modern orange linen with leather lettering piece, spine blistered; dampstaining in outer margins through most of volume, sidenotes on 2N2 shaved, old ink shelf mark and stamp of Cork Cathedral Library in margin of a number of leaves. Bookplates of John Murphy, Bishop of Cork (1772-1848), and the literary scholar Norman Endicott (1902-79), the latter designed by Leo Wyatt. Antwerp: ex Officina Plantiniana Balthasari Moreti, 1640

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first edition of a work celebrating the history and achievements of the Jesuit order in prose, verse, and emblems, published to mark the centenary of its founding. Funcke, page 341; Praz, pages 185-80 and 380.