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[GESUITICA] MAFFEI, John Peter (1536 -1603). Les trois livres de la vie du pére Ignace de Loyole. Douai: Bogard, 1594.
Scarce first French translation, with only one appearance at auction (RBH) of the famous biography of Ignatius of Loyola originally published in Rome in 1585 that has remained a point of reference for essays on Saint Ignatius.8vo, (170 x 105mm). Engraved portrait of St. Ignatius of Loyola to verso of title-page (tear in the lower margin of leaf D2, small wormtrack in the upper margin up to leaf C not touching text, browning). Contemporary full vellum binding (some wear). Provenance: old ownership inscriptions on the endpapers; Gio Pietro, Capitan Gerardi, Grimaldi. (1)
ESTIMATE € 300 - 500
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