Author: RENOULT, [JEAN BAPTISTE],
Title: Les avantures de la Madona et de François d'Assise. Recueillies de plusieurs ouvrages des docteurs Romains. Ecrites d'un stile recreatif; en même temps capable de faire voir le ridicule du Papisme sans aucune controverse.
Description: Amsterdam, Daniel de la Feuille, 1701. Seconde édition. Small 8vo. (XVI)+133+(4) pp. With 9 (of 10) engr. plates. Hardcover. Contemp. full vellum with gilt lettered red morocco title label on spine. (Binding sl. stained; corners of titlepage clipped; paper sl browned; lacks 1 plate). Good. ¶ Scarce anti-Catholic work by a former priest who became a Calvinist in London and styled himself Ministre du St. Evangile. The first ed. was published in the same year. The book was included in the Index Librorum Prohibiorum for centuries. - Provenance: [Marquess of] Camden, with his engraved bookplate on pastedown.

Keywords: Religions christian roman catholicism France 1701


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