Officium B. Mariae Virginis Juxta Ritum Sacri Ordinis Ff. Praedicatorum Reverendissimi Patris Fr. Balthassaris de Quiñones Ejusdam Ordinis Magistri Generalis Jussu Editum

12mo. Full dark brown calf. (24pp), 374pp. Full-page engraving (unnumbered p. 24), historiated initials, tailpieces, decorative endpapers. Good only. Binding is quite edgeworn and scuffed (mainly at spine and corners) yet strong-hinged; original decorative pastedown portions of endpapers present and nice, with front/rear flyleaf portions lacking; most of text block tight and attractive, with first half dozen numbered leaves showing early paper mends to bottom and outer margins; lacks eight leaves (1-2, 15-16, 19-20, 21-22, 23-24, 25-26, 27-28, 29-30); 19th c. bookplate of Dominican academy on front pastedown and miniscule inkstamped convent at bottom of title page. A decent and quite handleable copy, entirely in Latin and printed in black and red, of this (roughly translated) "Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary According to the Rite of the Sacred Order of the Friars Preachers" -- a Catholic devotional book devoted to Mary and shorter version of the "Divine Office," with daily prayers, scripture, psalms, hymns and other readings. This particular version is connected to Baltasar de Quiñones (1733-98), a Dominican cleric from Spain named Master of the Order of Preachers (1777-98). Despite flaws, a presentable example in original binding. …