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Certain most godly, fruitful, and comfortable letters of such true saintes and holy martyrs of...

Certain most godly, fruitful, and comfortable letters of such true saintes and holy martyrs of God, as in the late bloodye persecution here within this realme, gaue their lyues for the defence of Christes holy gospel: written in the tyme of theyr affliction and cruell imprysonment.

London: By Iohn Day, dwelling ouer Aldersgate, beneath Saint Martines, 1564.

Price: $18,000.00

A very fine copy, clean throughout, bound in early 20th c. brown morocco, gilt. Printed in Black Letter, With a fine, historiated, woodcut title page border populated by swans, youths playing instruments, griffins, and masks. A large woodcut illustration, taken from Foxe’s “Martyrs”, shows six reformers being burned at the...

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Articles to be enquyred in the visitation, in the fyrste yeare of the raygne of our moost drad...

Articles to be enquyred in the visitation, in the fyrste yeare of the raygne of our moost drad soueraygne Lady, Elizabeth by the grace of God, of Englande Fraunce, and Irelande, Quene, defender of the fayth. &c. Anno 1559

London: Imprinted… in Povles Churcheyarde by Richard Iugge and Iohn Cavvood, Printers to the Quenes Maiestie, 1559.

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Bound in 19th c. marbled boards. A fine, wide-margined copy. The title is set within an architectural woodcut border (McKerrow & Ferguson 83) with Cawood’s monogram in the shield. A large woodcut initial (of Arcas and Callisto?) appears on leaf A2.With the signature of the 16th c. book collector Humphrey...

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De Vita et Morib. Ignatii Loiolae: qui Societatem Iesu fundavit, libri III. of Loyola Ignatius,...

De Vita et Morib. Ignatii Loiolae: qui Societatem Iesu fundavit, libri III

Rome: Apud F. Zannettum, 1585.

Price: $5,500.00

Bound in contemporary vellum. A fine, fresh copy with small, discreet repairs to the inner margin of the first leaf and the outer blank margin of another. Light toning to a couple of signatures otherwise bright and crisp.Maffei, author of the influential history of the Jesuit missions in Asia, wrote...

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Constituciones y reglas comunes a todas las congregaciones de la Virgen nuestra Señora, fundadas...

Constituciones y reglas comunes a todas las congregaciones de la Virgen nuestra Señora, fundadas con autoridad Apostólica, en los Colegios y casas de la Compañia de Iesus. Sacadas de las bullas de su aproba-bacion (sic), y de las Constituciones de su primaria Congregacion de Roma

Zaragoza: En Caragoça por Angelo Tauano, 1599.

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Contemporary vellum, lightly worn. Text very good w. occ. light toning, sig. c lightly browned, small hole in leaf K11, worming in gutter of 4 lvs., not affecting text, occ. mild stains. Type-ruled throughout. Woodcut of the Virgin Mary on lvs. B9 and C9, Jesuit emblem on leaf C 10...

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Directorium Exercitiorum Spiritualium P.N. Ignatii. JESUITS., Claudio Acquaviva

Directorium Exercitiorum Spiritualium P.N. Ignatii.

Ingolstadt, David Sartorius, 1592.

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Woodcut device of the Society of Jesus on the titlepage and a typographical ornament at the end. Contemporary limp vellum binding made of a vellum leaf from a printed missal (small tear to spine, vellum curled and lightly soiled.) A nice copy with a little light foxing, mild wear to...

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Musurgia Universalis sive Ars magna consoni et dissoni in X. libros digesta. Athanasius MUSIC....

Musurgia Universalis sive Ars magna consoni et dissoni in X. libros digesta.

Rome: Ex Typographia Hæredum Francisci Corbelletti, 1650.

Price: $18,000.00

Two volumes bound as one. With an added engraved title page engraved by Baronius (possibly Jean Baron) after Johannes Paul Schor, an engraved portrait of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria engraved by Paulus Pontius after Schor, and 21 added engraved plates, numbered I-III, IV/V, VI-X, XI/XII, XIII-XXIII, that is, with...

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