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276 - [Jesuits]. [Jansenism]. [Miscellaneous]. LOT of 5 works comp…
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[Jesuits]. [Jansenism]. [Miscellaneous]. LOT of 5 works comprising: -LETTER from a bishop to one of his fellow bishops, assembled in Paris by order of the King to give their advice to His Majesty on four points concerning the Jesuit affair... No place, no publisher, [1761]. 12mo, 48 pp., contemporary havana calf, spine decorated with raised bands, red edges (2 corners worn). -[ALEMBERT (Jean Le Rond d’)]. On the Destruction of the Jesuits in France. By a disinterested author. No place, no publisher, 1765. 12mo, 233 pp., contemporary speckled sheepskin, plain spine decorated with grotesque motifs, gilt title, red edges (upper joint split). Provenance: André Mater (20th-century stamp on title page). -[Jansenism]. [REBOULET (Simon)]. History of the Congregation of the Daughters of the Infancy of Our Lord Jesus Christ, established in Toulouse in 1662 and suppressed by order of the Court in 1686. Amsterdam: F. Girardi, 1738. 2 volumes in-12, XII-334 + 336 pp., paperback, sewn with string, without cover or spine, with margins on all sides. (Some margins worn; pages torn without margins on vol. 2, pp. 105, 149 and 293). A new edition of this work, which was condemned by the Parliament of Toulouse on 25 May 1735. It appears under a false address and was undoubtedly printed in Paris. Founded in 1662, the congregation, suspected of being a Jansenist hotbed, was disbanded by order of Louis XIV in 1686. -LALLEMANT (Jacques-Philippe). History of the Controversies Concerning Diplomatics, with an Analysis of the Work Composed by the Reverend Father Dom Jean Mabillon. Paris: Florentin Delaulne, 1708. In-12, [3] leaves, 322 pp., [5] leaves, contemporary havana calf, spine with 5 raised bands, title label, decorated panels, marbled edges (defects including a split in the upper jaw, very faint waterstains at the top of a few pages). First edition of this work, written in the form of a dialogue, on the controversy raised by Father Barthélémy Germon against Mabillon’s *Diplomatique*. Provenance: Donatien Dujardin, priest (old signature on the inside front cover); another old signature on the title page. -[TOUSSAINT (François-Vincent)] *Les moeurs*. n.p., n.p., 1748. In-4, [16] leaves, 474 pp., contemporary fawn calf, spine with 5 raised bands, red morocco title label, ornamented panels, triple gilt fillet bordering the covers, double fillet on the edges, inner roulette, gilt edges on marbled paper (upper corner split along a panel, tail cap repaired, minor signs of wear; discolouration, frontispiece missing). Edition illustrated with a frontispiece (missing from this copy) and four unsigned vignettes (one on the title page and one at the head of each chapter). One of the rare copies reprinted in quarto format.
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