NATALIS, Hieronymus sj

Folio: [6-2 bl.]-636-[5-3 bl.] pp.-153 pl., cont. velum binding (joints broken). Good copy. Second edition (first 1594) of the famous pictorial Life of Christ by the Spanish Jesuit H. Nadal (1507-1580). With large and detailed Gospel illustrations by the Wierix brothers at Antwerp, J. & A. Collaert and Ch. de Mallery, most after the Italian painter Bernardo Passari, a few after Maarten De Vos. Engr. ill.: 2 titles ("Adnotationes et meditationes" and "Evangelicae historiae imagines ex ordine Evangeliorum" by Wierix after M. de Vos dated 1593) and 153 numb. full-page plates by H., J. and A. Wierix, Adrian Collaert and others + 7 full-page unnumb. ornamental pl. and numerous engr. vignettes in Renaissance style