BIVERO, Pedro de, or BIVERUS. - Lot 80

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BIVERO, Pedro de, or BIVERUS. - Lot 80
BIVERO, Pedro de, or BIVERUS. Sacrum sanctuarium crucis et patientiae, crucifixorum et cruciferorum, emblematicis imaginibus laborantium et aegrotantium ornatum. Artifices gloriosonovae artis bene vivendi et moriendi. Antverpiæ, ex Officina Plantiniana, Balthasar Moretus, 1634. Fort in-8 square, (12) ff, 678 pp, (10) ff, 70 plates. Contemporary shagreened calf, spine ribbed with stippling, gilt title, speckled edges (jaws cracked, headbands worn, corners rubbed, some leaves browned). Only edition. Illustrated with 70 fine, numbered copper engravings by de Mallery after Adriaen Collaert in Antwerp, including heart-shaped emblems; in-text vignettes, an in fine woodcut mark and an engraved title-frontispiece depicting a Virgin triumphing over Evil with multiple symbols. A book of devotional emblems, distinguished at the time from secular books of emblems, on the Cross of Christ, by the Spanish Jesuit Bivero (1572-1656), chaplain to the Spanish court in Brussels. Only 2 CCFr entries (BnF and Nice). Ex libris redacted. Ex libris Derboulier prêtre or Baranger on pdt. Backer-Sommervogel, I, 1525-1526. Funck, 280. JESUITISM. EMBLEMATA.
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