F. Corneli Curti Augustiniani De Clavis Dominicis Liber

  • Antverpiae [Antwerp]: Sumptibus Andreae Frisii / Andreas Frisius, 1670
By Cornelius Curtius [a.k.a. De Corte]
Antverpiae [Antwerp]: Sumptibus Andreae Frisii / Andreas Frisius, 1670. Very Good-. Antverpiae [Antwerp]: Sumptibus Andreae Frisii [Andrea Frisius], 1670. "Editio novissima aucta, emendata, & figuris aeneis exornata." 24mo (13cm.); full 19th-century brown morocco, gilt spine in five compartments; [36],158,[20]pp. (collated complete); added engraved title page and eighteen engraved illustrations in text, mostly full-paged. Ex-St. Michael's Monastery with their usual markings, leather slightly rubbed, worm-holing along bottom margin of most of the textblock not quite touching text, else a Good to Very Good, internally clean and sound copy.

Generously-illustrated study of the crucifixion by Belgian Augustin monk Cornelius Curtius (1590-1638) adorned with a myriad of representations of Christ on the cross, as well as depictions of the nails used, and views of the crucified feet from the side and from above.

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