Henri ESTIENNE
L'introduction au traité de la conformité des merveilles anciennes avec les modernes : ou, traité préparatif à L'Apologie pour Herodote
[ Jacques Foillet]|Sur Les Hasles [Montbéliard] • [Montbéliard] 1607|9.1 x 15.3 cm|relié
New edition, after the first published in 1566.
Contemporary full brown glazed calf binding. Raised spine decorated with grotesque compartments. Red morocco title label. One lack at head and one at tail. Upper joint cracked at head. Paper browned. 2 manuscript leaves at the end restore the censored passages found only in the 1566 edition. Good copy.
This work, the most famous by the reformed humanist Henri Estienne, is a curious treatise, a sort of violent satire of society and the Catholic church, in exemplary language; he describes the principal sins of the time and the failings of priests, addressing the sin of sodomy and debauchery. "The work forms Estienne's best-known French...
Contemporary full brown glazed calf binding. Raised spine decorated with grotesque compartments. Red morocco title label. One lack at head and one at tail. Upper joint cracked at head. Paper browned. 2 manuscript leaves at the end restore the censored passages found only in the 1566 edition. Good copy.
This work, the most famous by the reformed humanist Henri Estienne, is a curious treatise, a sort of violent satire of society and the Catholic church, in exemplary language; he describes the principal sins of the time and the failings of priests, addressing the sin of sodomy and debauchery. "The work forms Estienne's best-known French...
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