[Rarebooks] FS: Very scarce 1692 critique of Jesuit missionaries in China

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(CHINA) [Arnauld, Antoine]. HISTOIRE DES DIFFERENS ENTRE LES MISSIONAIRES 
JESUITES D’UNE PART ET CEUX DES ORDRES DE ST. DOMINIQUE ET DE ST. FRANCOIS DE L’
AUTRE. Touchant les Cultes que les Chinois Rendent a Leur Maitre Confucius, a 
Leurs Ancestres et a l’Idole Chin-hoan. N.p: No pub. (but Cologne: Quentel). 
1692. First edition. 12mo. xlviii,469,(7)pp. Leaf of errata and catalog of 
theological books at end. Cont. vellum, somewhat soiled. Some gatherings lightly 
browned. Title page with two old library stamps.     $1,250.00 (trade discount 
allowed)
A very scarce book, by Arnauld (d. 1694), the leader of the Jansenist 
movement following the death of Cornelis Jansen in 1638. Arnauld was also strongly 
anti-Jesuit and wrote numerous critiques of their order. This text is part of a 
long running series (1669-1695) entitled “La Morale Pratique de Jesuites,” 
being the 6th of 8 separate works under this series title. A second edition 
appeared in 1735. Of the 1692 original, only 3 copies are recorded in the OCLC 
World Cat. Not in the BL 17th Century STC.

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