Various authors

FOUR BOOKS CONNECTED TO PRAGUE AND THE MILIEU OF ECCLESIASTICAL, ARISTOCRATIC AND ACADEMIC ELITES

1726, 1727, 1739 and 1773
PARNASSUS ILLUSTRATUS, sive, Nomina et elucidatio historiarum poëticarum, fabularum, insularum, regionum, urbium, fluviorum, montium, fontium; nominum, item patronymicorum, aliorûmque: opusculum divinae poeseos studiosis ... Format 16°, 13.2x7.5 cm. 250 numbered pp., in Latin. Title page with printer`s device printed in black. Headpieces, vignette. Sturdy leather binding with blind-tooled decoration. Published by the Jesuit university press at the Klementinum in Prague in 1726. On the front pastedown an ex-libris: the personal coat of arms of Ignác Dominik Chorinský of Ledská. The book is more significantly damaged by woodworm. Eugen Worel (d. 1732): NEMESIS ECCLESIASTICA IN SACRIS CANONICI JURIS SANCTIONIBUS EXPRESSA. Format 4°, 20.9x16.5 cm. [5] leaves, 696 numbered pp., [1] leaf, in Latin. Title page printed in black. Initials, headpieces, vignettes. Sturdy leather binding, spine with 5 raised bands and blind-tooled decoration. Printed by Josef Antonín Schilhart at the Archiepiscopal Press in Prague in 1727. On the front flyleaf the inscription "Pro Conventu Zasmucensi Donatus a Reverendissimo Domino Abbate Sedlecensi". On the title page an inventory label numbered "2880". Binding rubbed, damaged by woodworm. FLORES POETARUM Hieme & Aestate fragrantes; Sive Sententiosi Versus, Ex veterum praecipue Poëtarum Topiariis. Format 16°, 12.8x7.8 cm. 98 numbered pp., in Latin. Title page with printer`s device printed in black. Headpieces, vignette. Sturdy leather binding with blind-tooled decoration and a paper label. Cardboard slipcase. Published by the Jesuit university press at the Klementinum in Prague in 1739. The book is more significantly damaged by woodworm. On the front pastedown an inscription dated 1745. Pietro Rigetti (1742–1798): Historische Nachricht sowohl von der Errichtung der Wellischen Congregation unter dem Titel Mariä Himmelfahrt als auch des dazu gehörigen Hospitals B. V. MARIAE AD S. CAROLUM BORROMAEUM. Format 4°, 21.1x17.2 cm. [4] leaves, 280 numbered pp., [1] leaf, in German. Title page printed in black. Copper-engraved frontispiece: Jan Jiří Balzer after a painting by Josef Joachim Redelmayer in the church in Přeštice. Initials, headpieces, vignettes. Sturdy half-leather binding. Published by the widow Johanna Průšová, through the factor Matyáš Glatz, in Prague in 1773. Father Rigetti was secretary of the Italian congregation and hospital in Prague`s Malá Strana. On the front flyleaf an ownership inscription "Littera F. Scala. 4. Anno 13." Apart from a slightly rubbed and soiled binding, very good condition. The work was published to celebrate the founding of the Italian congregation and hospital of St Charles Borromeo in Prague.