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Lot 37

JESUIT JEREMIAS DREXEL ANCIENT OPERA FROM 1651 PIGSKIN BINDING CLASPS WITHOUT A TOOL

Estimate: $613 - $700

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Year/Century: 17th century
Language: Latin
Subject: Religion & Spirituality
Binding: Vellum
Description: Opera Omnia, Volume II Heil für Schonwetter, 1651 (no edition information in this volume), probably printed in Frankfurt by Jeremias Drexel Measurements: 7.5 by 9.5"; thickness: 3.5" 1325 pages, 83 sheets, and 13 sheets Original timber boards with two undamaged claps and blind-tooled pigskin. the title of the manuscript on the back. A little binding wear. Toning text in Latin Jeremias Drexel, (1581–1638), a Jesuit professor of rhetoric and the humanities as well as a writer of devotional writing, was also known by the names Hieremias Drexelius or Drechsel. He worked for Maximilian I, the Elector of Bavaria, and his wife Elizabeth of Lorraine for twenty-three years as a court preacher in Munich.

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