•  Publisher's purple cloth, stamped in gilt on the spine; boards lightly soiled, corners bumped; spine sunned, pulled at head and foot, cloth of spine with a couple of very tiny tears and black spots. Front pastedown with bookplate. Small piece cut from bottom blank areas of four leaves of preliminaries, blank leaf at front torn out. Several pages with stains in margins. Very good. (14498)

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Quite scarce. We find only one copy reported as owned by any U.S. library.

•  Publisher's red cloth, all edges gilt. Very good condition.  (14554)

•  ESTC R20941; Wing (rev.) M514. On the Popish Plot, see: New Catholic Encyclopedia, X, 590–94; and the article on Titus Oates in The Dictionary of National Biography, XLI, 296–303. Removed from a nonce volume with remnants of previous binding at “spine” and two fly-leaves from the volume remaining attached also, on the second of which is a list of contents in ink. The leaves of this piece are numbered in ink consecutively on the upper outer corners of the versos. Some staining, foxing, or soiling, and a few shallow tears, with no loss of print. All edges speckled red.

•  Cf. Banks, 147; cf. Pilling, Algonquian, 345, for first (1861) ed. Not in Evans. Publisher’s cloth, with binder's title “Vie de Jésus en Algonquin”; cloth a bit wrinkled over spine and showing slight rubbing over corners, with signs of a now-absent shelf label on spine. Pages age-toned and a bit brittle as of the era, with sewing starting to loosen for some signatures. Back free endpaper with portion of upper margin torn and affixed to back pastedown.

•  Publisher's blind-stamped cloth, spine with gilt-stamped title; cloth showing light wear over extremities and sides. Last few leaves with mild foxing. Text with pencilled marks of emphasis, including exclamation marks added at interesting points. (13564)

•  Slightly irregular margins, as issued. Handsome.

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According to the colophon: “Finit explicatio formalis totius primae partis Summae theologiae Sancti Thomae Aquinatis . . . Die 21. Decembris anni 1611 . . . Mantuae in aedibus Sanctissimae Inquisitionis.” The earliest edition in any U.S. library is the Venice, 1614 edition. This 1622 printing is reported as owned by only one U.S. institution, this copy having been deaccessioned by the other library of record.

•  VD17 12:643261D.   Contemporary vellum over light boards, small area of discoloration on spine; lacks the silk ties, bookplate removed, old library pressure-stamp on title (properly deaccessioned), NO rubber stamps. All edges stained blue. A very nice copy. (20728)

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•  Contemporary mottled calf, spines with gilt-stamped leather title-labels, spine compartments with gilt-stamped floral decorations; covers mildly acid-pitted and considerably abraded, with leather lost at head of spine, corners, and joints. Spines with paper shelving labels or remnants thereof; front pastedowns each with bookplate. All edges marbled. Faint pencilled marginalia and bracketing; intermittent offsetting.  (22804)

This document gives the rules, constitutions, privileges, and indulgences of the third order in Lima on the occasion of its reestablishment at the conventual church of St. Michael. A fine woodcut of the arms of the Mercedarian order, surrounded by a typographic border, graces the verso of the title-leaf.

This is the first edition of the Breve compendio; it was reprinted in 1870.

•  Medina, Lima, 1945. Limp vellum lightly cockled and a little stained/soiled, with small hole to front cover from a defect in the skin; traces of adhesive on covers and a small paper label on front one. One small wormhole piercing margin of some leaves; traces of soiling and very light waterstaining. Library bookplate and personal rubber-stamp on front pastedown; old call number neatly penned (and crossed out) on title-page verso.

Scarce. Searches of OCLC, RLIN, and NUC Pre-1956 find only one reported U.S. holding, and that copy has since been deaccessioned.

•  VD17 12:103685V. Contemporary speckled sheep, front cover with gilt-stamped ecclesiastical coat of arms, spine gilt extra with gilt-stamped leather title-label; gilt rubbed and dimmed (spine gilt almost entirely so), leather moderately rubbed. Front free endpaper excised; front pastedown and first three leaves with worming along inner margins, touching a few letters. Title-page with old institutional pressure-stamp and with early inked ownership inscription; title-page reverse with armorial bookplate; back pastedown with sequence of early inked names dated from 1627 through 1704, the first four all inscribed in the same hand. Pages age-toned, with scattered instances of early underlining; a nice little book.

any clergyman who "dares utter insulting or ugly words against the King or royal persons or against the state or government, shall be arrested and bound over to royal authority."

This decree was printed in Mexico City and is dated in text 12 January 1814.

This copy printed on blue paper.

Uncommon: NUC locates only two copies (at the Bancroft and the John Carter Brown libraries).

•  Garritz, Impresos novohispanos, 1917; not in Harper, Americana Iberica.