[Louis THIBERGE] [Jacques de BRISACIER]
Lettre de Messieurs des Missions étrangères au Pape sur les idolatries et les superstitions chinoises[Letter from the Gentlemen of the Foreign Missions to the Pope on Chinese Idolatries and Superstitions]
s. n.|Cologne 1700|8.7 x 15.1 cm|Relié
Duodecimo edition, published in the same year as the first edition, setting out a key episode in the Chinese Rites Controversy, a dispute still ongoing at the time of publication, pitting the Jesuits against the Franciscans and Dominicans.
Contemporary mottled brown sheep, spine with five raised bands and gilt compartments, gilt board edges, red mottled edges. Two early ownership inscriptions, the first on the upper pastedown and the second on the title page, both in brown ink.
€450