[Haer (Floris Van Der) - editor]

Antiquitatum Liturgicarum

Arcana. Concionatoribus & pastoribus uberrimum Promptuarium, Sacerdotibus serium exercitum, Religiosis meditationum Speculum, Nobilibus spiritualis venatio, Laicis literatis sancta devotio, Omnia ex diversis authoribus tribus tomis comprehensa.

Fine engraved general title-page, woodcut initials and typographic headpieces. Ruled in red throughout.

Three volumes. 8vo. [16]ff, 392pp; 6ff, 7-965pp; 928pp. Bound in contemporary vellum over thin boards, the covers tooled in gilt with a single fillet border and a laurel wreath centre block. Smooth spines divided into four panels by two gilt double fillets and a semi-circular tool, with a stemmed flower at the centre of each panel, plain endleaves, gilt edges. (Ink titles written at the head of each spine, very slightly soiled and cockled). Stock no. 1441.
Duaci [i.e. Douai]: ex typographia Baltasaris Belleri, 1605.

BL STC (French) L-1651.
A compilation of liturgical texts with a lengthy commentary by Floris van der Haer (c.1547-1634), canon and treasurer of the College of Saint-Pierre, Lille.

This is a fine copy in the original semi-limp vellum case binding. The wreath on the covers, the flower tool and the division of the spine with two sets of double fillets terminating with semi-circles are very similar, and perhaps identical, to the binding on a copy of Politiques Extraicts Tirez de Plusieurs Histoires, Paris, 1598, which is illustrated and described as entry 7:5 in Fine and Historic Bookbindings from the Folger Shakespeare Library, (1992).

Signature of A. Hacqueville. Inscription and stamp of "Bibl. S. Victor". Purchased at City Book Auction, sale no.119, 22/6/1940, lot 19, by W. B. Jefferson, with his inscription and signature.