DREXEL, Jeremias, S.J.. — Gymnasium Patientiae...tertia editio.

1630 With engraved pictorial title and 3 full-page engravings. (13) leaves, 601 pp., 1 unn. leaf. 12mo. Contemporary vellum (ties lacking). Munich, Cornelius Leysser, 1630. Third of 4 issues published in the year of the first edition. In this work Drexel (1581-1638) compares the sorrowful life to a school, which man has to pass through. He had been treating this matter before as a preacher to the Bavarian electoral court.- Old ms. exlibris on title-page and small library on first text leaf. Nice copy. - VD17 12:101200Z; D"unnhaupt (2nd ed.), p. 1397, 14.3.; P"ornbacher, Drexel, p. 181, 10 (3); Breidenbach, Der Emblematiker Jeremias Drexel, 236-39; De Backer/Sommervogel III, 193, 12; not in Faber du Faur and Jantz.