EARLY ITALIAN BOSSUET - ENGLISH PROTESTANTISM

Roncaglia, Constantino (1677-1737) [Bossuet, Jacques Bénigne (1627-1704)]: Istoria delle Variazioni delle Chiese Protestanti [...]. In Lucca, appresso Pellegrino Frediani 1712.

Rare Italian compendium of Jacques Bénigne Bossuet's Histoire des variations des églises protestantes (1688), it predates the first Italian translation (1721). Pp. 1-165 concerns German Protestantism, pp. 167-222 English Protestantism, and pp. 223-392 Calvinist churches.

Details

First edition. Small 8vo., pp. [20] 393-396 [4], 1-392, [8] 397-403 [1]. Text (pp. 1-392) in correct, sequential order; prelims. (32 unnumbered pages), and index (pp. 393-403) misbound but all present (two old MS notes guide the reader through the misbindings). Light foxing and spotting, some loosening to text block (including from binding at front hinge), ownership stamps, including to title-page (owner Piero Chiminelli), bound in contemporary vellum boards, edges mottled red.

ICCU: IT\ICCU\LIAE\002519. OCLC (01/23) shows copies outside Italy in Geneva, Zurich and Harvard.