Apologia Cardinalis Bellarmini pro iure principum. Aduersus suas ipsas rationes pro auctoritate Papali […].

8vo: [24]-359-[1 bl.] pp. (some paper flaws and minor dampstaining or soiling, old repair to tear in L8).

Contemp. vellum, flat spine titled in ink, bottom edge titled (sl. loosening, soiled, def. at edges, lower endpaper lifted). Good copy.

Rare continental repr., with the errata corrected, of the London ed. by R. Field. R. Widrington (pseudonym of Thomas Preston) answers Bellarmine’s Tractatus de potestate Summi Pontificis. Preston’s work was put on the Roman Index of 1614. Woodcut IHS device on title. French archival document of 1764 used as lower flyleaf.
Ref. STC 25596.5. - Allison/Rogers 925.2.