Didière GILLET
La subtile et naïve recherche de l'hérésieLa Subtile et naifve recherche de l'hérésie, qui est la honte et confusion des Prédicans, Schismatiques, Hérétiques, où est amplement monstré que leur doctrine est du diable, faicte et forgée par des hommes pervers & malins. [The Subtle and Artless Inquiry into Heresy]
François Iacqvin [François Jacquin]|Paris 17 Septembre 1605|11 x 18 cm|Relié
First edition, no copies in North American libraries; only four copies known in Europe (Mazarine, Méjanes, BnF, Lausanne). Illustrated throughout with numerous headpieces, historiated initials, and tailpieces. Contemporary full gilt vellum binding, flat spine with gilt floral tools twice framed in gilt, morocco lettering-piece, boards framed in gilt, centre oval palm wreath, enclosing the initials “I.H.S.” (Jesus Hominum Salvator), superimposed over a former cypher “H. D. B.”, the lower board with the same wreath enclosing the initials “MA” (Mater Amabilis), tie holes, traces of a library label at the foot of spine, gilt edges, some foxing and margina
€4,500