[Rarebooks] FS: Pasquier Quesnel: Jansenist writer

[Kaaterskill Books]

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Quesnel, Pasquier [Mr. Du Bois, Prestre (pseud.)]. LA FOY ET 
L'INNOCENCE DU CLERGE' DE HOLLANDE, DEFENDUES CONTRE UN LIBELLE 
DIFFAMATOIRE INTITULE, MEMOIRE TOUCHANT LE PROGRES DU JANSENISME EN 
HOLLANDE. Delft: Henry van Rhyn, 1700. 216 pp. 16mo. (17 cm). Three 
quarter morocco over speckled paper-covered boards. Dominique de 
Colonia, Dictionnaire des livres jansenistes,v. II, p157

First edition. Pasquier Quesnel (1634-1719), French Jansenist writer, 
escaped to Brussels after his edition of the works of Pope Leo I was 
placed on the Index and he refused to condemn Jansenism. He was 
arrested three years after the publication of this work. Scarce. OCLC 
and RLIN list only four copies outside of France.

Spine lightly rubbed, later endpapers, institutional stamp to verso 
title page, top edge trimmed. A very good copy.  [26150]  $250.00

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