Duranti, De ritibus ecclesiae catholicae, Cologne, 1592, blind-tooled calf for the Jesuit College at Münster

8vo (180 x 102 mm). Roman and italic type, 36 lines plus headline. collation: †⁸ A-Z⁸ Aa-Zz⁸ Aaa-Lll⁸ Mmm⁴ (Mmm2 missigned Mmm4): 468 leaves (†8 and final leaf blank). Woodcut printer's device on title-page, woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces. (Some very light browning and spotting, small ink stain to Ss4 affecting a couple of letters.)

binding: Contemporary brown calf (197 x 122 mm), Cologne or Münster, border of blind roll with arms of Bavaria, Lüneburg, Franconia and Austria (all signed H.V.), alternating with profile heads in roundels, in centre 2 vertical rolls of foliage and fruit, spine with 4 bands, red painted label to lower compartment reading "4...3" with paper label affixed over paint, traces of 2 clasps, 3-line manuscript fore-edge title for the Jesuit College at Münster. (Head of spine defective, joints cracking.)

provenance: Jesuit College at Münster, inscription dated 1592 to final verso of text and erased inscription to title-page, absorbed by—University of Münster, founded 1773, secularised 1803—Ignatz Johann von und zur Mühlen (1735-1809), armorial bookplate, with inscription "Ad Bibl. I. I. zur Mühlen" to verso of title-page—Lorenz Reinke, Münster (1797-1879), Catholic theologian, inscription dated 1822 to upper endpaper—Jean Fürstenberg (1890-1982), red morocco booklabel—Camille Aboussouan (1919-2013), Lebanese ambassador to UNESCO, his sale, Sotheby's, London, 8 June 1993, lot 291. acquisition: Purchased in 1993 from Maggs Bros., London. references:  VD16 D 3009; USTC 667882