May 11, 2010 - Sale 2214

Sale 2214 - Lot 157

Price Realized: $ 8,100
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
VOS, MARTIN DE. Bound volume containing 5 series of 125 (of 135) engravings of early Christian hermits by Jan and Raphael Sadeler after Vos. Oblong 4to, 182x234 mm, modern black morocco; occasional marginal soiling and stains, scattered repairs not affecting images, French paraphrase of the Latin text written in lower margins throughout in contemporary hand. Paris, early 1600s

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Trophaeum vitae solitariae. Engraved title and 23 (of 25) plates; lacks plates 15 and 17. Paris: Thomas de Leu, early 1600s.
Sylvae Sacrae. Monumenta sa[n]ctoris philosophie quam severa anachoretarum disciplina vitae religio docuit. Engraved title and 24 (of 28) plates; lacks plates 7, 14, 25, and 26. Blank corner of plate 19 excised. Paris: Jean Le Clerc, 1606.
Solitudo sive vitae patrum Eremicolarum. 27 (of 30) plates; lacks title and plates 19 and 21. [Paris: Thomas de Leu, early 1600s.]
Oraculum anachoreticum. Engraved title and 23 (of 24) plates; lacks plate 20. Paris: Jean Le Clerc, early 1600s.
Solitudo, sive vitae foeminarum anachoritarum. Engraved title and 24 plates. Paris: Jean Le Clerc, 1606.