[Rarebooks] FS: The most complete 17th c. ed. of the "Index of Prohibited Books"

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(CATHOLIC CHURCH) Sotomayor, Antonio (ed.). INDEX LIBRORUM PROHIBITORUM ET 
EXPURGANDORUM NOVISSIMUS. Pro Catholicis Hispaniarum Regnis Philippi IV, Regis 
Cathol. ...De Consilio Supremi Senatus Inquisitionis Generalis. Madrid: Ex 
Typographaeo Didaci Diaz. 1667. Folio. (6),xxxii,(104),992pp. Double column text. 
Title printed in red & black and with a large woodcut coat-of-arms. Woodcut 
headpieces and capitals. BOUND WITH (as published): INDEX LIBRORUM PROHIBITORUM 
Alexandri VII, Pontificis Maximi Jussu Editus... Rome: Ex Typographia Rev. 
Cam. Apost. 1667. 304pp. Title printed in red & black and with an engraved 
allegorical vignette. Both parts bound in 19th cent. 1/2 black morocco, gilt, over 
dark blue cloth, some minor rubbing of extremities. Bookplate on front 
pastedown.      $2,500.00 (trade discount allowed)
The most complete 17th century edition of “The Index of Prohibited Books.” 
Both imprints are fictitious, both works probably having been printed in Lyon 
or Geneva. Palau #118941. Reusch. INDEX DER VERBOTENEN BUCHER, Vol. II, p. 50.

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