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[ACTA SANCTORUM]

Acta sanctorum Iunii [...] tomus II
Antverpiae
Thieullier, Hendrik I [Weduwe en erfgenamen]
1698
€280 - €400

In-folio (34 x 21,5 cm), [6], XC, [16], 1103 [= 1109], [62], [1 blank] pp, old library stamp on title page. With a beautiful portrait of Empress Eleonora, two plates outside collation and several text ill. Text in Latin and Greek. Contemporary pigskin binding on wooden boards, (rubbed) red edges, title in ink on for edges, bronze clasps

One volume of this famous critical encyclopedia examining the lives of the Christian saints. This volume about the saints remembered from June 7 till June 15. The other volumes of the 'Acta sanctorum iunii' were published by other printers. It is a work in progress, the Bollandists are still working to this day on the saints of December. Ref. Backer-Sommervogel [S.J.] I, 1632, 21

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