First edition

Thomas A KEMPIS & CURMER

L'Imitation de Jésus-Christ

Léon Curmer, Paris 1856, Pet. in-4 (18,5x26,5cm), (10) XII (6) 399pp. (3) xiv, relié.

Premier tirage de cette édition tirée en chromolithographie à l'imitation des manuscrits enluminés, dont les pages illustrées ont nécessité l'emploi de plus de 900 pierres et 3 à 14 couleurs par pierre. Chaque page est magnifiquement ornée d'un riche et large encadrement du texte [...]

1 800 €

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First edition

Thomas A KEMPIS & Jacob STRATIUS, Christoffel van [...]

Die Alleen-Spraecke Der Zielen met Godt. Door den Eerw. Heere H. Thomas van Kempen, Regulier der ...

by Jan Maes, Loven (Louvain) 1628, in 12 (15,5x10,5cm), (8) 135ff. (5)., broché sous étui.

First illustrated edition of 20 engravings by C. Van Sichem (initials, ornaments, and text in a frame) and printed in Gothic.
Our copy is presented paperback in a contemporary case in half morocco with old rose nerves, golden date in the tail, cardboard vellum boards.
Jacob Stratius [...]

500 €

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Thomas A KEMPIS

Libri quatuor de Imitatione Christi

S.n. [Pierre-François Didot], Paris 1788, grand in-4 (24,5x32,5cm), (3f.) 338pp., relié.

Sumptuous edition printed on wove paper by Pierre-François Didot, decorated with a portrait of the Child Jesus engraved in intaglio by Klauber.
Binding slightly later (1800) in full fair calf. Back with five false nerves decorated with double gilded boxes and nets, and irons anchor, a red [...]

600 €

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