£580
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs ft. the Library of the Late William St Clair Pt II | 712
Auction: 28 September 2022 at 11:00 BST
Composed by the R. Fa. Alfonsus Rodriguez of the Society of Jesus, in his Worke intituled, Of Religious Perfection. Translation out of Spanish. [Saint-Omer: English College Press], 1627. 8vo (14 x 9cm), contemporary limp vellum, woodcut device and type-ornament border to title-page, type-ornament headpieces and woodcut initials, binding soiled, text remaining attached to binding by one cord only, front free endpaper lacking, loss to upper fore corner of title-page, occasional damp-stains and other marks, a few small worm-tracks in gutter (text never affected) [ESTC S106082; STC 21149]
Note: ESTC traces eight copies world-wide. The English Jesuit college at Saint-Omer was founded in 1593. Its members fled to Bruges in 1762 following the expulsion of Jesuits from France.