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RICIUS, Alphonsus (fl. early 16th century). Eruditiones Christianae religionis plurimum utiles & cuilibet Christiano ad modum necessarie. Paris: Jean Petit, 1512.
4o (195 x 138 mm). 34 leaves. 4 full-page woodcuts (one repeated) and 18 smaller woodcuts. (A few small ink stains on a8v.) Red morocco, edges gilt, by Godillot. Provenance: John A. Saks; acquired from Bernard Quaritch, 1980.
FIRST EDITION, dedicated to King Louis XII (d.1515) of France and Queen Anne de Bretagne (d.1519). The dedications identify the author as confessor to the King, a native of Naples and professor of theology at the Sorbonne. The first full-page woodcut shows the Assumption of the Virgin and the City of God. On leaves A3 and 4 are representations of the 12 apostles in small individual woodcuts. On c4 is a full-page woodcut of the seven-headed monster of the Apocalypse. VERY RARE: not in BMC, Brun, Brunet, Didot, Fairfax Murray, Mortimer or Rothschild and according to American Book Prices Current, no copies have been sold at auction since 1946. Adams R-518; Rosenwald 955.
[Bound with:]
RICIUS, Alphonsus. Dialogus quo ex sacre scripture, priscorumque partum, dogmatibus purgatorium animabus purgandis preparatum onditur. Paris: Jean Petit, [ca 1512].
4o. 10 leaves. Large printer's device on title, woodcut initials.
FIRST EDITION of this dialogue on the subject of purgatory, based on the Scriptures and the Holy Fathers, and directed against the Waldensian heretics.
[Bound with:]
RICIUS, Alphonsus. Questio perpulchra qua investigator. Si meritum existentis in prosperus amplius sit quem illius qui efrt pacienter adversa. Paris: Jean Petit, [ca 1512].
4o. 8 leaves. Large printer's device on title, woodcut initials.
FIRST EDITION. A discussion on the question of whether there is more merit in the prosperous man than in the man bearing adversity.
4o (195 x 138 mm). 34 leaves. 4 full-page woodcuts (one repeated) and 18 smaller woodcuts. (A few small ink stains on a8v.) Red morocco, edges gilt, by Godillot. Provenance: John A. Saks; acquired from Bernard Quaritch, 1980.
FIRST EDITION, dedicated to King Louis XII (d.1515) of France and Queen Anne de Bretagne (d.1519). The dedications identify the author as confessor to the King, a native of Naples and professor of theology at the Sorbonne. The first full-page woodcut shows the Assumption of the Virgin and the City of God. On leaves A3 and 4 are representations of the 12 apostles in small individual woodcuts. On c4 is a full-page woodcut of the seven-headed monster of the Apocalypse. VERY RARE: not in BMC, Brun, Brunet, Didot, Fairfax Murray, Mortimer or Rothschild and according to American Book Prices Current, no copies have been sold at auction since 1946. Adams R-518; Rosenwald 955.
[Bound with:]
RICIUS, Alphonsus. Dialogus quo ex sacre scripture, priscorumque partum, dogmatibus purgatorium animabus purgandis preparatum onditur. Paris: Jean Petit, [ca 1512].
4o. 10 leaves. Large printer's device on title, woodcut initials.
FIRST EDITION of this dialogue on the subject of purgatory, based on the Scriptures and the Holy Fathers, and directed against the Waldensian heretics.
[Bound with:]
RICIUS, Alphonsus. Questio perpulchra qua investigator. Si meritum existentis in prosperus amplius sit quem illius qui efrt pacienter adversa. Paris: Jean Petit, [ca 1512].
4o. 8 leaves. Large printer's device on title, woodcut initials.
FIRST EDITION. A discussion on the question of whether there is more merit in the prosperous man than in the man bearing adversity.