Author: Kordecki Augustyn, 1603 - 1673
Title: Nova gigantomachia, contra sacram imaginem deiparae virginis a Sancto Luca depictam, et in Monte Claro Czestochouiensi apud religiosos patres ordinis S. Pauli primi eremitae, in celeberrimo regni Poloniae ceonobio collacatam, per Suecos & alios haereticos excitata, et ad perpetuam beneficiorum gloriosae deiparae virginis recordationem, successurae posteritati fideliter conscripta a R.P.Fr. Augustinus Kordecio. Anno Dominie, M. DC. LV.
Published: Cracovieae, in Officina Viduae & Heredum Francisci Caesarii, 1655.
Format: folio. grav. front.,+(12), +199,120-126,+(I) s. With three engravings in the text, a full-page, and a full page “träsnitt”. Stock Spotted, moisture stripe in the upper corner from p. 130 and onwards, initially with a wormhole in the margin. Front cooker with cut off signature, small hole p. 57-58 with letter loss.
Binding: contemporary vellum bands, title in ink on the back. From Eric's library, with its bookplate.
Ex libris: From the library at Ericsberg. The famous Ericsberg’s Castle library was amased in the period 1843-1913 by two generations of the baronial Bonde family, and became “one of the biggest and most valuable individual collections in Sweden”. (Carlander, Svenska bibliotek och exlibris, 1896-1904).
Marginalia: attached and glued on the cover page is a letter from G.E. Klemming to Carl Jedvard Bonde, dated November 1, 1881.
Reference: Nordisk historia ur Ericsbergs bibliotek III. Sormaktstid. (Mats Petersson & Mathias Stenvall) – Stockholm: Centralantikvariatet, Katalog 67, No60, p. 35.