Juan Bose: Vita Iesu Christi 1564

BOSE, JUAN. Vita Iesu Christi Domini nostri secundùm Matthaeum, Marcum, Lucam, & Ioannem. Collectore Ioanne Boue presbytero... Compluti (Alcalá de Henares, excudebant Francisco Cormellas & Petrus Robles) 1564.

Oblong 12:o (about 141x65 mm.). (2), 3-347, (7) ll. Title with woodcut vignette.
Contemporary vellum, worn, defective straps, spine with manuscript title, remnants of old vellum label with text on upper board, later last endpaper and inner doublures. Some marginal dampstaining. Old annotations on first endpaper (mended holes). Bookplate stamp of Roman Kaczmar.

A rare Spanish printing of a pocket size calvary book, printed in Alcalá de Henares.
Alcalá de Henares (meaning Castle on the Henares [river]), is a Spanish city located 35 kilometres northeast of Madrid.

From the library of Roman Kaczmar