Author: Galeotti, Niccolò.
Title: Imagines præpositorum generalium Societatis Jesu delineatæ, & æreis formis expressæ ab Arnoldo van Westerhout addita perbrevi uniuscujusque vitæ descriptione a P. Nicolao Galeotti sacerdote ejusdem Societatis.
Description: Romæ: Sumptibus Venantii Monaldini Bibliopolæ in Via Lata, Ex Typographia Bernabo', et Lazzarini,, 1751. 0. Hardcover. Folio. 42ff. []2, A2-S2. Second edition. Title in red-and-black; title and text enclosed within double rule border; emblematic title vignettes. Added title-page reads: "Ritratti de' prepositi generali della Compagnia di Gesù delineati, ed incisi da Arnoldo van Westerhout aggiuntivi i brevi ragguagli delle loro vite dal Padre Niccolo' Galeotti sacerdote della medesima Compagnia." Contemporary calf. With 14 portraits engraved by Westerhout, one by Westerhout's pupil Jakob Frey, and the last three engraved by G. A. Faldoni. Each plate faces a page of text, Latin and Italian in double columns. Sommervogel III, 1108-09. Good.

Keywords: Art, Portraits, Engravings


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