[Rarebooks] FS: 2 rare works on Elizabethan England bound together. Antwerp: 1592 & Cologne: 1587

[Kenneth Karmiole]

[Parsons, Robert]. ELIZABETHAE, ANGLIAE REGINAE HAERESIM CALVINIANAM PROPUGNANTIS, SAEVISSIMUM IN CATHOLICOS sui Regni Edictum... Promulgatum Londini 29, Novemb[ris] 1591... Per D. Andream Philopatrum [pseud.]... Augustae (i.e. Antwerp): (apud Joannem Fabrum). 1592. 8vo. 268,(20)pp. Final leaf a blank. Index. BOUND WITH: Mary, Queen of Scots. MARIAE STUARTAE SCOTORUM REGINAE, Principis Catholicae, Nuper ab Elizabetha Regina, et Ordinibus Angliae... Cologne: Godefridum Kempensem. 1587. (64)pp. The two works bound together in cont. vellum, hand lettered spine. Vellum somewhat soiled, fore-edge a bit chewed.    $2,000.00 (trade discount allowed)
I: Parsons (1546-1610) an important English Jesuit, here defends his faith, countering the strongly anti-Catholic proclamation of 1591, made by Elizabeth against the Spanish throne and the missionary work of the Jesuits in England. The imprint is fictitious. Allison & Rogers notes that this edition was seen through the press by Richard Verstegan. Adams E142. Allison & Rogers, Vol. I, #885.
II: One of the earliest accounts of Mary Queen of Scots' imprisonment and death, beheaded in February of 1587, together with a Catholic commentary on the event. The original English account of which this is a Latin translation does not appear to have been published, according to Allison & Rogers. Adams M828; VD 16, M 991; Allison & Rogers Vol. I, #803.


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