Sold for:
$1,140
$1,140
Mantelius, Johannes (1599-1676) Speculum Peccatorum Aspirantium ad Solidam Vitae Emendationem . Antwerp: Aertessens, 1637. Quarto, illustrated with an engraved title and seventeen text engravings by Dutch engraver Pieter de Jode (1570-1634) accompanying the story of Saint Augustine's miraculous conversion; a clean copy, in a contemporary parchment binding, ex libris designer and artist Allan Francis Vigers (1858-1921), with his self-designed woodcut bookplate dated 1894, and his signature on ffep, extensive contemporary note on Augustine on the free end leaf at the back, 8 x 5 3/4 in.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2013-06-01