[Rarebooks] FS: Two works (one an Aldine) on Celibacy and the Power of the Pope. Venice: 1554-55

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Campegii (or, Campegius), Tommaso. ...DE COELIBATU SACERDOTUM NON 
ABROGANDO. Venice: Ad Signum Spei. 1554. Sm. 8vo. (16),(96)pp. Title page with a 
large allegorical woodcut vignette. BOUND WITH: Campeggi, Tommaso. OPUS... DE 
AUCTORITATE, & POTESTATE ROMANI PONTIFICIS, & Alia Opuscula, Quae Indicantur 
in Sequenti Pagina. Venice: Apud Paulum Manutium Aldi F. 1555. Sm. 8vo. 
ff.(12),223. Lg. woodcut anchor & dolphin printer's device on title. Both works 
nicely bound together in 19th century brown morocco, gilt decorated spine, 
over marbled boards. Bookplate of James Stevens Cox on front pastedown.     
$2,000.00 (trade discount allowed)
First editions of two of Campegii's main works. The first is his tract on 
celibacy, the second is his treatise on the power of the Pope (ff.1-116), 
followed by 19 other theological treatises. I. BM STC Italian, p. 142. Not in 
Adams. II. BM STC Italian, p. 142. Adams C477. Renouard, ALDUS, p. 164.

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