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(CAPUCHIN ORDER). Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum S. Francisci Capuccinorum... By Dionigi, da Genova & ed. by Bernardo da Bologna. Finely engraved allegorical frontis. & numerous engraved headpieces. 11 p.l. (incl. frontis.), 322, [1] pp. Small folio, 19th cent. half-vellum & boards. Venice: S. Coleti, 1747.

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(--). ...Appendix... [By Johann Maria von Regensburg]. 56 pp. Small folio. Rome: Bertinelli, 1852.

Third and best edition of the first work and first edition of the Appendix. This is the earliest and, for several centuries, the standard bio-bibliographical guide to members of the Capuchin order. About 3000 authors are listed, each with a biographical sketch and a list of their writings. The first edition appeared in Geneva in 1680 and there was a 1691 second edition.

Fine copies.

Besterman, The Beginnings of Systematic Bibliography, pp. 55-56. Besterman 1135.

1750.0000