[Rarebooks] FS: Work by Pope Pius V, with engraved title by Peter Paul Reubens. Antwerp: 1640

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Pius V, Pope. EPISTOLARUM LIBRI QUINQUE. Nunc Primum in Lucen Editi Opera & 
Cura Francisci Goubau. Antwerp: Ex Officina Plantiniana, Balthasaris Moreti. 
1640. 4to. (12),447,(35)pp. Indices. Copper engraved title by Peter Paul 
Reubens. Large woodcut printer’s device on verso of final (privilege) leaf. 
Elaborately blind tooled paneled calf, a bit worn, nicely rebacked, black morocco spine 
label. Inked ownership notation at top blank margin of title.     $1,000.00 
(trade discount allowed)
A series of letters from Pius V to prominent men of his time (from 1566 to 
1572). It includes references to the war with the Turks and the Battle of 
Lepanto (1571). The editor, Francois Goubau, was the Spanish ambassador to Rome.

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