PONTIFICALE ROMANUM Clementis VIII... Antwerp, Ex Officina P - Lot 138

PONTIFICALE ROMANUM Clementis VIII... Antwerp, Ex Officina Plantiniana, Balthasar Moretus & the Widow of Jean Moretus, & Jean Meursius, 1627. Folio, red morocco leather, Du Seuil-style decoration, decorated spine, interior roulette, gilt edges (contemporary binding). Plantin edition printed in two columns in Roman type, in red and black, with notated plainchant, adorned with a lovely frontispiece engraved by Daudet after Delamonce and several illustrated initials. Plantin’s compass mark on the last leaf. This copy includes a very fine double-page portrait of Robert Bellarmine, engraved on copper by Schelte Adams Bolswert. Wet seal of the Jesuits of Lyon on the title page. Attractive binding decorated in the Du Seuil style. A few pages are foxed; water stains at the corners of a few pages toward the end of the volume. Restoration in the margins of leaves F1 and Rr3. Restoration to the binding (cap bands, corners, and one jaw over the height of two compartments); lining and endpapers replaced.

Estimate:£514.42

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