BIVERO, Pedro de, or BIVERUS. - Lot 13

BIVERO, Pedro de, or BIVERUS. Sacrum sanctuarium crucis et patientiae, crucifixorum et cruciferorum, adorned with emblematic images of the laboring and the sick. Architects of the glorious new art of living and dying well. Antwerp, from the Plantinian Press, Balthasar Moretus, 1634. Large square 8vo, (12) leaves, 678 pp., (10) leaves, 70 plates. Contemporary root-grain calfskin, spine ribbed and decorated with dotted lines, gilt title, speckled edges (gouge marks, trimmed caps, rubbed corners, a few browned leaves). Only edition. The illustrations consist of 70 fine numbered intaglio copper engravings by de Mallery after Adriaen Collaert in Antwerp, including heart-shaped emblems; in-text vignettes, a woodcut mark engraved at the end, and an engraved frontispiece title page depicting the Virgin triumphing over Evil with multiple symbols. A book of devotional emblems—distinct at the time from secular emblemata—on the Cross of Christ, by the Spanish Jesuit Bivero (1572–1656), chaplain to the Spanish court in Brussels. Only 2 entries in the CCFr (BnF and Nice). Ex libris redacted. Ex libris of Father Derboulier or Baranger on the title page. JESUITISM. EMBLEMATA. Sommervogel, I, 1525–1526. Funck, 280.