Live auction - Lot 1247

[Theology - Controversy]

ALBIN de VALSERGUES, Jean d'

Les six livres du sacrement de l'autel pour la confirmation du peuple françois, prouvé par texte de l'Escripture saincte, auctorité des anciens docteurs, & propres tesmoignages des adversaires de l'Eglise catholique [...].

Avignon, P. Roux, 1567

€ 250 / 350

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8vo: [16]-197 [= 167]-[9] ff. (some marg. dampstaining).

Contemp. blindtooled sheep (rubbed, head repaired, worming in tail).

Second edition of this controversial work (1st ed.: Paris, 1566) by Albin de Valsergues (d. 1566), theologian and preacher, who was archdeacon of the Cathedral of Saint Stephen of Toulouse. Woodcut printer's mark on title. As far as we know, only one copy held in a public institution (Avignon, Bibliothèque municipale Livrée Ceccano).
Ref. Betz, Avignon 16me s., p. 45 nr. 31. - Pettegree (FB) 401 = USTC 16551. - Not in Index Aurel., Adams, Machiels, BL London, BnF, NUC.
Prov. Monastic ownership entries. - Ms. entries erased. - Libr. ticket.

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Lot 1247

Les six livres du sacrement de l'autel pour la confirmation du peuple françois, prouvé par texte de l'Escripture saincte, auctorité des anciens docteurs, & propres tesmoignages des adversaires de l'Eglise catholique [...].

ALBIN de VALSERGUES, Jean d'

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