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Plantin Press.- Missale romanum..., Antwerp, Plantin/Moretus,...

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Missale romanum..., title in red and black with engraved vignette, 10 full-page engraved illustrations, printed in red & black throughout in double-column including woodcut initials and musical notation, K4 frayed at lower edge, slight worming (mostly single wormhole passing through majority of work and increasing a little towards end), light marginal water-staining at beginning and end, later leather over wooden boards, g.e., silk tabs to fore-edge (some lacking), a little splayed and worn, especially corners and spine ends, Antwerp, Plantin Press, Widow & Heirs of Balthasar Moretus, 1675 § Bona (Giovanni) Rerum liturgicarum libri duo, half-title, engraved portrait, coat-of-arms on title and head-piece, a few rust spots, later ink inscription and contemporary sprinkled calf, spine gilt, rubbed, spine worn at head and defective at foot, Paris, L.Billaine, 1672, both with bookplate of Melville Portal of Laverstoke, the second also with his later ink inscription, 4to (2)