Imagines praepositorum generalium Societatis Jesu
By: delineatae, & aeris formis expressae ab Arnoldo van VVestherhout addita perbrevi uniuscujusque vitae descriptione a P. Nicolao Galeotti Sacerdote ejusdem Societatis.
Contributors: Monaldini, Venanzio. bookseller.; Westerhout, Arnold van, 1651-1725, engraver.; Frey, Jakob, 1681-1752, engraver.; Faldoni, I. A., engraver.; Weston College School of Theology.
Edition: Editio secunda auctior, et emendatior.
Publisher: Sumptibus Venantii Monaldini Bibliopolae in Via lata, Ex Typographia Bernabo', et Lazzarini
Published: 1759
Place of publication: Romae
Language: lat
Number of pages: 42
Subjects: Jesuits -- Biography.; Jesuits -- Portraits.
Other titles: Ritratti de' prepositi generali della Compagnia di Gesù; Galeo Ritrat
Notes: Title in red and black; title and text enclosed within double rule border; title vignettes of Jesuit device.

Added t.p.: Ritratti de' prepositi generali della Compagnia de Gesú delineati, ed incisi da Arnoldo van VVestherhout aggiuntivi i brevi ragguagli delle loro vite dal padre Nicolò Galeotti Sacerdote della medesima Compagnia. Edizione seconda, accresciuta e corretta. In Roma a spese di Vanantio Monaldini Mercante - Libraro al Corso. Nella Stamperia del Bernabo', e Lazzarini. MDCCLIX.

Added engraved t.p. with Jesuit device; 14 portraits engraved by Westerhout, 1 engraved by Westerhout's pupil Jakob Frey, and the last 3 engraved by I. A. Faldoni. Each plate faces a page of text, Latin and Italian in double columns (Cf. Backer-Sommervogel).

Includes bibliographical references.

Backer-Sommervogel, III, 1108-1109

Burns Library copy: stamp on t.p.: "Weston College Weston Mass."

Burns Library copy: full leather binding with panelled spine

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