[BOHEMIAN BINDING / CZECH PRAYERS / LITURGY] MILINSKY (Matej...

Hammer

£1,700

[BOHEMIAN BINDING / CZECH PRAYERS / LITURGY] MILINSKY (Matej.) editor / compiler: Modlitby Pobozne a Krestansk z gynich modliteb, giz prwe od mnohowz inych...od Ducha S. obdarenych..., 4to, pp. [xxii], 602, [xii], Gothic letter within woodcut borders, comtemp. Bohemian crushed red morocco gilt with central gilt profile bust portrait of Christ with halo, (wear to hinges & corners etc.), 18th c. labels (re-attached), Karlowitz (i.e. Prague) Danyele Karla (i.e. Daniel Carolides of Carlsberg), 1619, Provenance: ink note "Ex Bibliotheca Baluzi", (i.e. Etienne Baluze, Colbert's librarian); "J. Bridges 1719" (i.e. the book collector John Bridges); bookplate of the "South Library, 1860", Earls of Macclesfield sale, Sotheby's 2006.