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Casavecchia, Josepho.
Thesaurus Occultus, Utili Perquisitione Repertus. [I.e. the Hidden Treasury].
Publisher: Typis, Archi-Episcopalibus, in Collegio S. Norberti, per Samuel Beringer. Pragæ;
Date of Publication: 1697
Stock Code: 14164
Duodecimo, pp., [12], 188, [4]. Cream vellum to boards, titles gilt to brown leather spine-label, block-printed patterned endpapers, edges mottled red, shelf-mark in contemporary hand inscribed to spine. Woodcut vignette to title, woodcut initial letter, and 7 seven woodcut tailpieces. Book label of the Bishopric of Montreal to front paste-down, stamp of the Archbishopric of Montreal embossed to title-page. Note in contemporary hand to verso of front free endpaper reads ‘Scanzia [i.e. edition] A. A. 4, no 35’ suggesting the binding is of Italian provenance. Soiling to boards, hinges cracked. Front free endpaper detached, title-page slightly burned to lower quarter, loss to pp. 115-116, contents otherwise clean. A good copy. Bohemian divinity book, which has journeyed from seventeenth-century Prague, to Italy, to nineteenth-century Montreal. A storied copy of a scarce book. £350.00