Description:
Manuscript on paper ('Pro Patria' watermark), in Latin, 4to (204 x 158 mm), 3 parts in 1 vol, pp. i: [4 (title, blank)], 229, [1], 230-250, [3 (blank)]; ii: [6 (title, blanks)], 270-283, [35], [3 (blank)]; iii: [6 (title, blanks)], [85], [3 (blank)]; p. 170 misnumbered 180, pp. 171-186 misbound after p. 202; very neatly written in brown ink in a single hand; illustrated with 5 full-page logic diagrams, 13 full-page emblematic illustrations and 11 large vignettes in pen and wash; overall very good in contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments with gilt red morocco lettering-piece, marbled endpapers; some loss at head- and tail-panels of spine, some wear to joints and extremities, light rubbing to boards, one old paper label to spine and two to upper board. A handsome manuscript comprising a thorough course in logic and dialectic, executed by a student at the Jesuit college in Antwerp, and illustrated with an extraordinary decorative programme inspired by printed emblems.
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