‎BOURGHESIUS Joannes S.J. - Jean Bourgeois ( ) - Charles de MALLERY (illustrator ) - L. CLAESSENS ( bookbinder ) - Merlin d' Estreux de Beaugrenier (provenance ) : :‎
‎In quindecim mysteria sacri rosarii deiparae Virginis Mariae exercitationes, per P. Ioannem Bourgesium Malbodiensem e Societate Iesu. Figuris aneis expressa per Carolum Mallerij.‎

‎.: Antwerpiæ (Antwerpen), apud Henricum Aertssium, 1622, 294 pp + (9) nn pp + (1)nn pp (blank) (complete). With engraved vignet on title page and 15 full page copper engravings (signed in the plate by Mallery). Bound in 19th century full brown morocco, all edges gilt, marbled end papers, raised spine with gilt title. Very fine binding signed in the border of the first paste down [L. Claessens]. Jean Bourgeois .S.J. (Maubeuge, formerly in the Southern Netherlands, 1572 - 1653), led the jesuit college at Valenciennes and subsequently at Saint-Omer. This very handsomely printed, illustrated and bound book is devoted to the worship in the Roman Catholic church of the Holy Mary. This worship, with Antwerp as a centre, became a weapon in the counter-reformative action against Protestantism.. The illustrations, with a caption in Latin underneath served the didactical purposes of the jesuits in their drive to bring the catholic religion to the young and uneducated. This is the first edition . USTC 1003765. DBS Vol. II, 35, nr. 4. BCNI 7029. Marvellous copy.‎

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