[Jesuitica]. First and only edition Della retta intentione ch'è la regola di tutte l'attioni humane by Jeremias Drexel from 1645 with 3 copper-engraved plates, within coeval vellum binding with traces of a manuscript title to the smooth spine. Also in the lot are Famiani Stradea Romani and Societtae Iesu Prolusiones academicae of 1626, Meditationes in psalmum XLIV, & CXVIII of 1616, Sanctorum patrum in the Roman edition by Girolamo Brunelli of 1585, and 2 other volumes. (6)

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