WORLDWIDE CATHOLICA
WORLDWIDE CATHOLICA
DIFFERENCES
— Between
France
& Spain
García, Carlos. Antipatia de francesi e spagnuoli. Venetia: Presso Cristoforo Tomasini, 1640. 12mo. 216 pp.
The subject of this work is the rivalry between Spain and France for political and religious supremacy in the Catholic realm of Europe, but the author also discusses national traits, as he sees them, such as manner of dressing, walking, eating, and talking.
• Palau 97802. Recent boards covered with marbled paper; leather spine label gilt with title. Some lower margins irregular due to natural paper flaws. All edges speckled red. A very good copy. (25812)
Cree Syllabics Guilloux, N., Father. [three lines in syllabic characters, which are transcribed as] Livre d'apologétique [then]. Winnipeg, Man.: Canadian Publishers Ltd., 1943. 8vo. [4], 114 pp.
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No copy traced via OCLC.
• Not in Banks. Not in Evans. Original printed cloth–covered stiff wrappers. Fine. (14756)
Defending the Origins Story of the
Virgin of Guadalupe Guridi Alcocer, José Miguel. Apología de la aparicion de
Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe de Méjico, en respuesta a la disertacion que la impugna. Mexico: En la oficina de Don Alejandro Valdes, 1820. Small 4to (21.5 cm; 8"). [5] ff., 201, [1] pp., [4] ff. (without the plate).
Click the interior images for enlargements. The work ends with a list of subscribers, making this one of the few colonial Mexican books with such a list.
• Medina, Mexico, 11897; Palau 111216; Garritz 3593. Mid-19th-century sheep, nicely gilt-tooled; leather a little dry and rubbed. Faint 19th-century stamps of an ecclesiastical library. Without the Montes de Oca plate; else, a very good copy. (23969)
Skepticism from an
Ecclesiastical SavantHuet, Pierre-Daniel. Pet. Dan. Huetii episcopi Abrincensis De imbecillitate mentis humanae libri tres. Amstelodami: Apud H. Du Sauzet, 1738. 12mo (17 cm, 6.75"). xxxviii, [10], 223, [1] pp. (frontis. lacking). 
Click the interior image for an enlargement. • Recent quarter calf and marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped leather title and author labels. Frontispiece lacking and pages showing light cockling; clean and attractive. (21114)
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