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BINDING-SILVER] [QUIRSFELD, JOHANN]. Des mit Jesu verlobten Tugend-liebenden Frauenzimmers allerschönster Seelen-Schmuck ... [N.p. but Leipzig]: Andreas Eyssel, [1682]. In a full silver binding of the period, hinged, covers delicately chased with religious scenes (the Last Supper on the front cover, the Crucifixion on the rear, Jesus in glory appearing to an armed man on the spine), caps on head and tail of spine, clasps, the top lettered on the inside A.C.K. and the other I.G.F.R., buntpapier sheets on pastedowns, all edges gilt, gauffered. 4 3/4 x 2 1/4 inches (12 x 5.5 cm); folding engraved frontispiece, [22] ff. 891, 21 pp., with engravings throughout text. A charming and well preserved silver binding. A little devotional compendium intended for women, with charming if rather crude baroque engravings of ladies consoled by lute-playing angels, etc. C