‎SFONDRATI Coelestinus :‎
‎Gallia vindicata, in qua testimoniis exemplisque Gallicanae praesertim ecclesia, quae pro regalia, ac quatuor Parisiensibus propositionibus a Ludovico Maimburgo Alijsque producta sunt, refutantur.‎

‎11. (Sankt Gallen), Typis Monasterij S. Galli, 1687, small thick in-4°, (16) nn pp +637 pp + (5)(index) + 299 pp + (4)(index), cont. leather, raised back, blindtooled spine , triple blindtooled fillets on both covers, speckled edges, handwritten note on titlepage (S. Ioannis Bapt. et Evang.), small circular ex-library stamps on fly-leaf and verso title. The author, 1644-1696, became prince-abbot of Sankt Gall in 1687 and a cardinal in 1695. This work aims to refute gallicanism, in particular Louis Maimbourg, 1610-1686, a French church historian, expulsed from the jesuits in 1681 by Pope Innocent XI for his gallican views. Rare first edition. Only one copy of this edition in the Virtual Catalogue of Karlsruhe (Berlin Staatsbibliotheek, Bestand erfragen, Kriegsverlust möglich)..‎

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