[Rarebooks] FS: Emblem Book: Francis of Assisi, 1594, with 52 engraved pages

[Charles Agvent]

[EMBLEM BOOK] FRANCIS OF ASSISI, Saint. S. FRANCISCI HISTORIA  CUM
ICONIBUS  IN AERE EXCUSIS AD ILLM. ET RM.D. DOMINUM CONSTANTIUM S.R.E.
PRESB.  CARDIN. SARNANUM. Rome: Andreas de Puttis 1594. First Edition.
Small  quarto  (5-1/8"  x 7") bound in 18th century vellum  with  gilt
morocco  spine label, red speckled edges. With a total of 52  engraved
pages  including an engraved dedication to Giovanni Carlo Fuchs signed
by  Giovanni  Troschel,  an  engraved frontispiece  "ad  instanza  del
M.R.P.D.  Guiulio  Cesare  Sartirana  nell   Monastero  di  S.  Pietro
Giessate  di  Milano"  signed  "G.F.A.," an  engraved  title,  and  49
engraved  plates, most numbered and the first signed by F.  Villamena.
Apparently  lacking  plate 15 but with plate 16 in duplicate.  A  rare
emblem  book  illustrating  the life of St. Francis  of  Assisi,  with
caption  to  each  plate  in Latin and Italian.  Plate  13  shows  St.
Francis  meeting  with the Sutlan of Turkey in 1219, and plate 46  his
receiving  of the Stigmata on Mount La Verna in 1224. Not in  Landwehr
ROMANTIC  EMBLEM  BOOKS.  Only  the St.  Bonaventure  University  copy
located  by  OCLC.  One  plate with clean tear  just  into  image  and
repaired on verso; spotting to the last plate. Near Fine      $1750.00


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