Beschreibung:

BOILEAU, Abbe Jacques (1635-1716)]. Historia flagellantum. De recto et perverso flagorum usu apud Christianos. Ex antiquis scripture, patrum, pontificum, concilorum, & scriptorum profanorum monumentis cum cura & fide expressa. Paris: "Apud Joannem Anisson," 1700. 12mo (157 x 92mm). Woodcut device on title, headpiece and initial (some variable light browning throughout, a few darker spots affecting letters). Contemporary calf, spine gilt with raised bands (spine worn at head and foot, quite heavily rubbed). Provenance: A. Kuhnholtz (armorial bookplate); some early annotation to endpapers. FIRST EDITION.