Author: Colonia, Dominique de (1660-1741).
Title: Dictionnaire des livres Jansénistes ou qui favorisent le Jansénisme.
Description: Antwerpen, Chez Jean-Baptiste Verdussen, 1752. Complete in 4 volumes. Vol. I: (4), (xx), 508, (2 errata) pp.; Vol. II: (4), 552, (2 errata) pp.; Vol. III: (4), 594, (2 errata) pp.; Vol. IV: (4), 467, (1 errata) pp. Contemporary mottled calf with raised bands and gilt decorated spines. Small-8vo, 17x10cm. Title-pages printed in red and black. Engraved frontispiece in volume I. With indices at end of vol. iv) Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. Classic bibliography on the literature of and about one of the major conflicts in the Roman Catholic church of France. This book, by the passionate anti-Jansenist Jesuit from Lyon Colonia, was first published in 1722 as Bibliotheque Janseniste. The 1752 edition is the first in the by Patouillet substantially extended version, and much more rare than the 1755 presumed first version. It contains f.i. the titles of the immense number of Jansenistic pamphlets that were directed against the Bull Unigenitus. It has been put on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum several times (1749 and 1754) as we also read from an annotion on the verso of the title-page of volume 1 in an old hand. That former reader also warns to be carefull with this dangerous book: 'Il faut se servir de cet ouvrage avec discretion...'. It was removed from the index by pope Leo XIII only early in the 20st century. The bindings are worn mainly at capitals and spine, except vol. I where there is more serious wear and traces of repair; It also has a marginal stain in a few quires, some quires disbound but firm, the frontispiece loosening and some soiling of pages; Stain in upper corner of the first 28 pages in vol. iv; small bookplate on first endpapers. Still an acceptable set. Caillet 2500; Brit. Mus. cat.,; v. 1, p. 968;; v. 7, p. 293; Barbier I, 418 and 967.

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