WORLDWIDE CATHOLICA
WORLDWIDE CATHOLICA
Earnest & Illustrated
Duchaussois, Pierre. The Grey Nuns in the far north. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, (copyright 1919). 8vo. [4], 287, [1] pp.; illus.
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This is illustrated with a good many half-tones.
• Publisher's green cloth, front cover and spine with black-stamped title; spine sunned and with inked call number, spine head chipped, corners slightly rubbed. Front pastedown with institutional bookplate, front free endpaper faintly rubber-stamped. (24822)
“La
Condamnation des Templiers”Dupuy, Pierre. Traitez concernant l’histoire de France: Sçavoir la condamnation des Templiers, avec quelques actes: L’histoire du schisme, les Papes tenans le siege en Avignon: Et quelques procez criminels. Paris: Edme Martin, 1700. 12mo (16 cm, 6.25"). Frontis., [8], 564 pp. (i.e., 570; pagination repeats 271–76)
one of the earliest published sources for records of the Templar trial; the preface here notes that many previous historians had judged Philip IV and his attack on the Templars harshly “parce qu’ils ignoroient les fondemens de cette condamnation, qui consistoient aux preuves qui te sont ici representées” (p. [vii]).
Early editions of this work are all uncommon; only 10 U.S. holdings of this edition were found in searches of OCLC, RLIN, and NUC Pre-1956. The frontispiece portrait of “Petrvs Pvteanvs” is unsigned.
• Brunet, II, 902. Contemporary vellum, spine with stamped, gilt-framed title; spine showing very faint traces of a now-absent label. Front pastedown with bookplate of a 19th-century collector; frontispiece shaved close (just into impression) by binder. Title-page browned; some intermittent moderate foxing. 
An attractive and interesting little book.
Keepin' 'em Down . . . England & Wales. Laws, statutes, etc. An abstract of all the penal-laws now in force against Jesuites, priests, and popish recusants. Collected for the ease of justices of the peace, and others who are obliged to put the laws in execution. London: Pr. for John Starkey at the Mitre in Fleet-street, 1679. Small 4to. [1] f., 21, [1 (blank)] pp. 
Click the image for an enlargement. An important negative statement of civil liberties and religious freedom.
• ESTC R21099; Wing (rev.) E862. Removed from a nonce volume; dusty, in modern wrappers. Sidenotes closely trimmed with loss of letters and even a short words. (20451)
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