Live Auction 9702Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts
ROSARIUM. Sacri Rosarii Virginis Mariae ab haereticorum calumniis defensio ... per Iosephum Stephanum [José Estève]. Rome: Domenico Basa, 1584. 4° (216 x 161mm). Engraved title and 23 full-page engravings in the text, all SUPERBLY ILLUMINATED IN GOLD AND COLOURS. (Quire O slightly loose and a piece missing from the inner margin of O3, library stamp at foot of N4v.) Contemporary limp vellum (tear at head of spine). Provenance: E.B.P. (gift inscription dated 1811 to:) Do Ponte -- Aloisianum Bibliotheca (stamp) -- Compagnia del Gesú (book label). Not in Adams or BMC.
Lot 348

ROSARIUM. Sacri Rosarii Virginis Mariae ab haereticorum calumniis defensio ... per Iosephum Stephanum [José Estève]. Rome: Domenico Basa, 1584. 4° (216 x 161mm). Engraved title and 23 full-page engravings in the text, all SUPERBLY ILLUMINATED IN GOLD AND COLOURS. (Quire O slightly loose and a piece missing from the inner margin of O3, library stamp at foot of N4v.) Contemporary limp vellum (tear at head of spine). Provenance: E.B.P. (gift inscription dated 1811 to:) Do Ponte -- Aloisianum Bibliotheca (stamp) -- Compagnia del Gesú (book label). Not in Adams or BMC.

Closed15 November 2013

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ROSARIUM. Sacri Rosarii Virginis Mariae ab haereticorum calumniis defensio ... per Iosephum Stephanum [José Estève]. Rome: Domenico Basa, 1584. 4° (216 x 161mm). Engraved title and 23 full-page engravings in the text, all SUPERBLY ILLUMINATED IN GOLD AND COLOURS. (Quire O slightly loose and a piece missing from the inner margin of O3, library stamp at foot of N4v.) Contemporary limp vellum (tear at head of spine). Provenance: E.B.P. (gift inscription dated 1811 to:) Do Ponte -- Aloisianum Bibliotheca (stamp) -- Compagnia del Gesú (book label). Not in Adams or BMC.