Claude Chalemot (1667)

Matěj Tanner (1630-1692)

TWO BOOKS ON THE LIVES OF SAINTS

Cologne, 1686, and Prague, 1694
Claude Chalemot: Kurtze Lebens Verfassung Der Heiligen und Seeligen Auch Berühmbten Männer Deß Heiligen Cistercienser Ordens (A brief biography of the saints, the blessed and the celebrated men of the Holy Cistercian Order). Format 4°, 20x16 cm. 8 leaves introduction, 338 numbered pages + 37 leaves (indices), in German. Title page printed in black. Copper-engraved frontispiece, initials, head-pieces and vignettes in the text. Solid vellum binding. Published by the heirs of Jan Weidenfeld and Godfrid de Berges in Cologne in 1686. Very good condition given the age of the book; title page with ownership inscriptions. Matěj Tanner: Societas Jesu apostolorum imitatrix. Format 4°, 30.1x18.7 cm, fragment: pp. 389-492 (part of Societas Europaea); this fragment contains 17 illustrations after Karel Škréta and Jan Jiří Heinsch, engraved by J[eremias] Kilian, Wolfg. Philipp Kilian, Joh. Christoph Hafner, Balthasar v. Waterhout, Nyport, Georg Christoph Insbruckner and P. J. Franck, published by the Charles-Ferdinand University in Prague in 1694. Solid binding damaged and loosened, spine with fragments of paper labels.