Della retta intentione chè la regola di tutti l'attioni humane.
Rome, (Lodovico Grignani für) Hermann Scheus, (1644-)1645.
Small 8vo. (24), 934, (2) pp. With engraved, illustrated title page and engraved frontispiece. Contemporary vellum with ms. title to spine.
€ 200.00
First Italian edition of Drexel's book, first published in 1626 in Latin and translated by the Jesuit Lodovico Flori. "Emblematic, a prelude to his Heliotropium" (Jantz).
Somewhat browned and brownstained throughout due to paper. First quire misbound, but complete; first ff. slightly wormed.
References
De Backer/Sommervogel III, 188, 8 and 807, 10. ICCU PUVE\001649. Cf. Jantz I, 866.