DE PERFECTO MUNDI CONTEMPTU OPUSCULUM

by Bindings - Marcantonio Guillery, Dionysius Carthusianus

$5,000 · Offered by Phillip J. Pirages · No longer available

Lyon: Thibaud Payen, 1561 . 122 x 78 mm. 4 3/4 x 3 . 567, 1 pp. CONTEMPORARY ROMAN RED MOROCCO, GILT, BY MARCANTONIO GUILLERY, covers with gilt strapwork frame accented with six-pointed stars, palmette and volute cornerpieces, central panel of upper cover with Jesuit IHS monogram within an oval laurel wreath, surrounded by swirling foliage linked with knots, lower cover with similar foliage and with author's name at

• Binding: Leather

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