Volume 4 only (of 5). Quarto (26 cm); xxiii, 504 pages. Large engraved vignette, scenic initials and ornamental tail-pieces. In full vellum over boards; leather title label and mansucript shelf mark on spine; red speckled edges. MEXICAN "MARCO DE FUEGO" branded into top-edge--a rare artifact. Worm trails present in inner margins, and occasionally in text. The brand burned into the top edge is the ownership mark of the Colegio Imperial de al Santa Cruz, Santiago de Tlateloco, an abbey founded in 1536 in a city that Hernan Cortes had constructed over the ruins of its indigenous antecedents. The brand is reproduced in Roger Stoddard, "Marks in Books" (Cambridge: Houghton Library, 1985), page 17, #23. Seller Inventory # 6493
Title: Praelectiones theologicae, dogmaticae, ...
Publisher: Tommaso Bettinelli, Venice
Publication Date: 1742
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good+
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