Emmanuel van SCHELSTRATE
Ecclesia africana sub primate Carthaginiensi[The African Church under the Primate of Carthage]
Frédéric Léonard|Paris 1679|15.9 x 21.3 cm|Relié
First edition, illustrated with a fine engraved frontispiece portrait of Cardinal Casanate, signed by Pet. Paul Bouché, an Antwerp engraver born around 1646 [cf. Bénézit].
Gay 1464.
This engraving is lacking in the copy held by the Bibliothèque nationale.
Contemporary full brown calf binding, spine with five raised bands, compartments decorated with gilt floral tools, gilt fillets on board edges, mottled edges.
Restorations to the spine, dampstain to the outer margins of the opening leaves, some leaves slightly yellowed.
“Another edition of this work by Emmanuel Schelstrate, published in Antwerp in the same year, is recorded.”
The author published this
€1,300