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Wednesday 18 November 2020, 10:30 AM • Rome

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Liguori, Alfonso Maria de'

Triumph of the Church, history of heresies with their refutations, 1791

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€ 100 - 200

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€ 512

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Information

Bassano del Grappa, Remondini, 1791. In 12 °. 3 vols. Woodcut heads and small ends, light scattered blooms, woodworm hole in the last installments of the second volume, coeval binding in mottled calfskin with title within the spine, some gaps and restorations, slight defects. § Together in the lot Pani, Tommaso Vincenzo. Of the punishment of heretics and the tribunal of the Holy Inquisition [...] , [Faenza], 1789. In 4. ° 2 vols. Specimen in beards, light scattered blooms, some halos, rare pencil annotations, half leather binding with author and title stamped in gold within a red gusset on the back with 5 nerves, some peeling, slight defects.


Specialist Notes

Interesting collection of the history of heresies composed with the anti-enlightenment spirit that distinguished the work of the bishop of Neapolitan origin Alfonso Maria de 'Liguori (1696-1787), canonized in 1839 by & nbsp; Gregory XVI.