Histoire du concile de Trente, écrite en Italien par Fra-Paolo Sarpi [...] et traduite de nouveau en françois [...] par Pierre-François Le Courayer.

2 vol., large 4to: [16]-lxxvi-696, [4]-848 pp.; 1 pl. (min. foxing, min. marg. dam., some browning and min. staining, some soiling and traces of use).

Contemp. red morocco, covers bordered with a triple gilt fillet, gilt orn. spine with 5 raised bands, gilt edges, marbl. endpapers (some scratches, bit worn, some dam.). Nice copy.

First ed. of the translation by the Oxford academic Pierre-François Le Courayer of the work of the Venetian humanist, scientist and historian Paolo Sarpi (1552-1623). Sarpi's work did not coincidentally appear first in London in 1619, since the author took a critical attitude towards Rome and the centralising impulses from the papal capital. Ill. with a full-page portrait of the author and some headpieces, all by Georges Vertue.
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