Mysticum Heliotropium, Hoc Est Selectae Industriae Ad Unionem Cum Deo Consequendam de Gianotti, R. P. Alphonso, S. I - 1658

Ingolstadii: Typis Edegianis, 1658. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Small 8vo. (2-1/2 by 4 inches). (16),267,(5). Later (18th cent?) quarter leather. Spine in six compartments with raised bands; gilt titles and leaf designs. Marbled paper boards and endpapers.Engraved title as well as a typeset title page. Tiny bit of marginal dampstain and worming to the bottom margin of the first few pages, affecting the outer border of the engraved page and the imprint date of the typeset title, else a fine copy. Translated from the author's Italian into Latin "Ab alio ejusdem Soc: Iesu Religioso". Other editions appeared in 1665 and 1698.