Courte description des ordres des femmes & filles religieuses
Subtitle: concernant une petite relation de leur origine, de leur progrés, & de leur confirmation.
By: Avec les figures de leurs habites, gravez par Adrien Schoonenbeek..
Publisher: Chez l'autheur, dans la Kalverstraat.
Published: 1691
Place of publication: À Amsterdam
Language: fre
Number of pages: 194
Subjects: Monasticism and religious orders for women.; Monasticism and religious orders -- Habit.
Work titles: Nette afbeeldingen der eygene dragten van all geestelyke vrouwen en nonnen orders.
Notes: Translation of: Nette afbeeldingen der eygene dragten van all geesteylke vrouwen en nonnen orders, first published, Amsterdam, 1688-1691.

Date of imprint suggested by NUC pre-56.

Signatures: *⁸ [A]⁸ B-M⁸ N² (-N2). Almost all signatures are signed only on the verso of the final leaf of the gathering.

Page 70 misnumbered 74; p. 2180-184 misnumbered 190-194.

Illustrations are 90 full-page engravings of various religious habits, faced by explanatory matter in letterpress.

Title page vignette; added engraved title page.

Burns Library copy imperfect: p. [11]-16 (1st count) and p. 1-4 (2nd count) and first 6 pictures called for in "Index figurarum" (p. [7] (2nd count)) wanting.

Burns Library copy bound in 19th-century tooled, dyed and gilt calf.

c.1: 98/99 0075R.