£100
Marchantius (Jacobus), Opuscula Pastoralia, two parts in one, first edition thus, Coloniæ Agrippinæ, 1642-43, letterpress half-title, engraved allegorical title-pages, double-column, complete, collating: [x], 402, [4]; [viii], 271, [5], 20pp; i.e. *⁴, A-³D⁴, ³E³; *⁴, A-²O⁴, bound in contemporary South German pigskin over wooden boards, blocked and tooled in blind, the centre of each cover with a saint in an oval laureate reserve, graduating double-fillet and foliate borders, four-compartment spine of raised bands, the second lettered in contemporary manuscript, restrained by chased fore-margin clasps, both monogrammed: P.N., all edges stained red, title-page with contemporaneous inscription, final leaf with discreet 19th/20th c ex-lib stamp, 4to
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