[Rarebooks] FS: Jesuit scholar Ferrari's "Orationes..." London: 1668 with one other.

[Kenneth Karmiole]

Ferrari, Giovanni Baptista (or Ferrarius, Johannes Baptista). ORATIONES... London: Johannis Redmayne. 1668. 12mo. (4),240,(6), including final blank. Added engraved title. BOUND WITH: Waring, Robert. AMORIS EFFIGIES: Sive, Quid Sit Amor?... Huic Quartae Editioni Additur Ejusdem Autoris. Carmen Lapidarium, Memoriae Vatum Principis, Ben Jonsoni Saerum. London: J. Redmayne. 1668. (14),10,138,(6)pp. Index. Cont. calf, spine & extremities worn, front hinge cracked but holding soundly. Free endpapers lacking.    $350.00 (trade discount allowed)

The first work in an early edition of the "Meditations" of Ferrari, a learned Jesuit who wrote important works on many subjects such as a Syriac dictionary and  treatises on both fruits  flowers. Included in the meditations are essays on the character of Loyola, Francis Xavier, Catherine of Sienna, etc. The second work is a popular treatise on love reprinted many times in the 17th century. Wing F813 and W863.

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