Bidermann (Giacomo)

Vita Del Conte Antonio Maria Ubaldini

Scritta in lingua Latina dal P. Giacomo Bidermani Della Compagnia Di Giesu, E tradotta nell' Italiana da un' altro Religioso della medesima Compagnia.

Jesuit device on the title-page.

12mo. [103 x 56 x 12 mm]. 107, [1] pp. Bound in contemporary brown goatskin, the covers with a gilt double fillet border and blind triple fillet panel with gilt fleur-de-lis at the outer corners and the sacred monogram in gilt at the centre. Smooth spine divided into four panels by gilt double fillets, each panel tooled with a gilt fleur-de-lis, plain endleaves, gilt edges. (A few small patches of insect activity on the lower cover, slightly rubbed and marked). Stock no. ebc1739.
In Bologna: per l'Herede del Benacci, [c.1633].

A very good copy in a well preserved Jesuit binding. This life of a fellow Jesuit who had died in 1629 aged only 18 was written at the end of Bidermann's life, when he was censor of printed books in Rome. There is no copy of this work in the BLPC nor in NUC, and COPAC records only an edition of 1669 (of which there is a microform at Cambridge).