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circa 13,5 x 8 cm., 8 ff., 259 pp., with 2 full-page engraved portraits. Contemporary full calf with gilded spine and large gilded arms on both covers VD17 3:309767H. First Latin edition of the biography of Diego Lainez (1512-1565) the second Superior General of the Society of Jesus after the death of Ignatius of Loyola. Added is the life of the biblical scholar Alfonso Salmeron (1515-1585), one of he first Jesuits who is best known for his Scriptural commentaries. The author Pedro de Ribadeneira (1527-1611) had been a companion of both as well as of Ignatius. - BOUND WITH: 2. Illustriss. Principis Philippae, Lotharingiae Ducissae, &c. Quae marito defuncto S. Clarae ordinem amplexa est, vita. Conscripta a virginibus, quae in eodem cum ea vixerunt Monasterio, idiomate gallico, edita iussu Illustriss. Cardinal. De Vaudemont. Nunc in latinum translata. Köln, Mylius, 1604. 42 ff. VD17 23:312799R. First Latin edition of this life of Philippe de Gueldres (1465-1547), Duchess consort of Lorraine who after the death of her husband and when her son assumed the throne retired in 1519 to the couvent de Clarisses at Pont-à-Mousson. - Armorial binding of Jacques-Auguste de Thou (1553-1617) with his arms and those of his second wife Gasparde de La Chastre, and the conjoint monogram "I A G" (i.e. Jacques Auguste Gasparde). First title with an older small stamp of a convent, some browning but mostly clean, only slightly rubbed. Pretty and very elegant binding.