Live auction - Lot 820

[Forbidden books - Liège imprint]

Index librorum prohibitorum cum regulis [...].

Liège, G. Morberius for H. Hovius, 1568

€ 150 / 250

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8vo: 68 pp. (lacking last 2 lvs: col. and final blank; toned and dampstained, fore-edge margin H8-I1 repaired with loss of text).

Old leather over wood, spine on 3 raised bands with gilt label (recased, joints rubbed, head and tail repaired). Acceptable copy.

Early Liège edition of the Index of Forbidden Books, issued by the Council of Trent. Woodcut mark on title. Ref. BT 1556. - de Theux 5-6. - BCNI 3126. - Pettegree NB 16181. - Not in Adams, STC Dutch (BL). Bound with: Canones et decreta sacrosancti oecumenici et generalis Concilij Tridentini [...]. Index dogmatum & reformationis. Ibidem, 1568 (col.: 1569). 8vo: 336-[64] pp. Woodcut mark on title. Ref. BT 556. - de Theux 7. - BCNI 3113. - Pettegree NB 29652. - Not in Adams, STC Dutch. Prov. "Aux Capucins de Malmedy" (monastic ownership entry on Canones title). - Libr. stamps.

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Index librorum prohibitorum cum regulis [...].

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