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VIVES, Juan Luís

Excitationes animi in Deum [...]

Lyon
Seb. Gryphius
1543

€400 - €450

16mo: 336 pp. Woodcut mark on title. (sl. toned, occasional minor soiling or dampstaining). 19th-c. polished calf, covers with gilt ruled border, richly gilt spine with 5 raised bands and morocco label, red edges, marbled endpapers. Very good copy

Rare early Lyon repr. of the collection of devotional texts by Vives (1493-150), 1st published Basel 1540. Ref. SvGültlingen (Gryphius) 810. - Baudrier VIII:178. - Not in Adams. Prov. Old name on title. Numerous pink underlinings by an attentive reader

Humanism