1706 5 Rare Book Lot Catholic Church History & LAW

1859 History of Prostitution ROME Brothels Mythology Sanger Law Catholic Church ‘History of Prostitution’ is a rare, 19th-century book by William Sanger. Written as a result of an extensive invest

1722 ARMORIAL ROYAL / Nobility PROVENANCE Catholic Church Holy Week RARE LOT A collection of 5 books of Catholic liturgy including the Divine Office of Holy Week, an Imitation of the Holy Virgin and a

1806 5 Book Lot Bigsby Lying Mendacity Oldknow Church of England Nottingham LAW A fine set of pamphlets and short treatises including Oldknows defense of the Church of England and John Bigsbys lecture

1755 3 Rare Book Lot Italian Catholic Church Devotionals Marchetti Roberti A fine collection of 18th-century Italian Catholic devotional works by Giovanni Marchetti, Giovanni Roberti, and Mathieu-Fran

1712 4 Rare Book Lot Italian Bible Catholic Church Devotionals Palafox y Mendoza A fine collection of 18th-century Italian Catholic devotional works by Alfonso Muzzarelli, Joseph Coltellini, and Juan

1734 RARE 10 Book Lot French Liturgy Catholic Church Sermons Sacraments A fine collection of 18th century works Item number: #9073 Price: $599 Main author: François de Fénelon Tit

1781 Catholic Indulgence Pope Pius VI Cardinal Bishop Carlo Rezzonico Italy Gold A fascinating piece of Catholic Church history, this handwritten indulgence was made out to the family of Lonzi Apermas

1871 1ed Romanism As It Is Catholic Church History Popes Wars Illustrated Barnum Samuel Barnum’s “Romanism As It Is” is a 19th-century overview of the Catholic Church, from its earliest times th

1862 BEAUTIFUL Catholic Church History Jesus Christ & Virgin Mary 2v Bourasse Abbot J.J. Bourasse was a French Catholic churchman who is primarily known for his historical treatises on the lives of Je

1667 1ed Italian Saints Catholic Vanzi Nicholas Tolentino Clare of Rimini Cariti Sacre An exceedingly rare, and rather unknown work of moral theology and Catholic Church history by Michele Vanzi. This

1623 1st Capuchin Coriolani Catholic Church Canon LAW Excommunication Heresy A rare 17th-century Catholic treatise filled with decrees from Pope Clement VIII, liturgical prayers and hymns, ecclesiasti

1615 Catholic Church Tribunal LAW Dominico Picus Commentary on Roman Rota A very rare 17th-century work on Catholic tribunals. Dominico Pico published his commentary on the decisions made by the Roman

1769 Spanish Inquisition History Catholic Church TORTURE Goujet 2v SET ‘Histoire des Inquisitions’ is a book collected by Claude-Pierre Goujet. Goujet included extracts from other works relating t

1682 1st ed Marcel Church History Catholic Schisms Popes Heresy Josephus Bible A rare, first edition printing of Marcel’s ‘Tablettes Chronologiques’, a work summarizing the full history of the c

1693 1ed Spanish Inquisition History RARE Catholic Church Marsollier & Limborch A rare first edition of Jacques Marsollier’s 1693 historical account of the Catholic Inquisition. Curiously, Marsollie

1693 1ed Spanish Inquisition History RARE Catholic Church Marsollier & Limborch A rare first edition of Jacques Marsolliers 1693 historical account of the Catholic Inquisition. Curiously, Marsolliers

1885 History of Blessed Virgin Mary in North America Catholic Church Illustrated Xavier MacLeod’s ‘History of the Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary’ is a 19th-century account of the history of

1624 HUGE FOLIO Church History Baronio Catholic Fathers Annals Pope Eugene IV “The greatest history of the Church ever written!” (Lord Acton, on Annales) Cesare Baronio of Sora was a 16th-cent

1783 HUGE FOLIO Pope Benedict XIV Catholic Church Councils ROME Canon Law Pope Benedict XIV served as Pope over the course of the mid-18th-century and is often considered one of the greatest scholars

1774 Massillon Synods Church History Clergy Catholic Church French 2v SET Jean Baptiste Massillon was a French bishop of Clermont whose Conferences and Synodal Discourses was an important ecclesiastic

1699 5 Rare Books Constantinople Catholic Devotional Maxims Cayley A collection of 5 rare books from the 17th- and 18th-centuries. This lot includes Christian and Catholic devotionals, ecclesiastical

1624 Canon LAW & Rites of Catholic Church Ecclesiastical Durant Paris France Jean Etienne Durant was a 16th-century French magistrate from Toulouse who is primarily known for his book De Ritibus Eccle

1699 History of CHURCH Councils Catholic Trent Carthage Toledo Orleans Saragossa Jean Hermant was a 17th-century French historian and priest known for his histories of religious orders, chivalry, and

1597 Piedmont ITALY Senate LAW Jews v Catholic Church Obscene Gestures Latin ‘Novae Decisiones Sacri Senatus Pedemontani’ is a rare 16th-century law treatise concerning legal decisions made by the