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[IMPRESSION DE DOUAI] [COSTERUS SJ, Franciscus]
Piarum et Christ. Institutionum libri tres, in usum sodalitatis B. Mariae Virginis Duaci Joannes Bogardus 1582 In-12°, [32], 286, [2] pp, printer's mark in wood on title, illus. of two full-page woodcuts: Our Lady of the 7 Sorrows on last leaf and the crucifixion on p. 258, rest. tear in title page, qq. mouil. on qq pages. Ex libris ms. on title page, ms. notice on page opposite title. Full swollen vellum, endpapers renewed Ref. BCNI 3766; Sommervogel p. 720. Very scarce Douaisian printing. Franciscus Costerus (1532-1619), born in Malines, Jesuit father, provincial of the Rhineland and then of the Netherlands from 1577. Theologian, preacher and religious writer
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[IMPRESSION DE DOUAI] [COSTERUS SJ, Franciscus]