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TALBOT ( Peter ), Abp.

Currency:EUR Category:Antiques / Books & Manuscripts Start Price:10.00 EUR Estimated At:80.00 - 120.00 EUR
TALBOT ( Peter ), Abp.

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Auction Date:2012 Oct 19 @ 18:00 (UTC+1)
Location:38 Molesworth Street, Dublin, Dublin, ., Ireland
TALBOT ( Peter ), Archbishop., SJ. A treatise of religion and governmemt [sic] with reflexions upon the cause and cure of Englands late distempers and present dangers. The argument whether Protestancy be less dangerous to the soul, or more advantagious to the state, then the Roman Catholick religion? The conclusion that piety and policy are mistaken in promoting Protestancy, and persecuting Popery by penal and sanguinary statuts. [Ghent or London ?] Permissu Superiorum. An: Dom: 1670 [?]FIRST EDITION, pages (20), 534, 553 - 614, 34[i.e. 30], (10), the pagination jump occurs between the end of the third book and the beginning of the fourth, indicating, perhaps, the lack of a sub-title or other matter but the catchwords are correct and the text reads on and we have, consequently, priced the item accordingly, 4to, strongly bound in a rubbed and worn but sound and strong 19C half calf : the title-page lightly soiled and strengthened in the blank fore-margin, with three small oval stamps and an inscription "William Carroll Waterford 1775" at head and an earlier inscription "Ex Libris Jacobi Carroll Ossoriensis" and further signature "Pascal(?) Carroll" in lower blank margin, the errata leaf at end (verso blank) neatly backed, otherwise a large-margined and very good copy. Wing T 118 suggests Ghent and ESTC suggests London as place of printing. Sweeney, Ireland and the Printed Word, 4919. The issue with the errata leaf at end beginning "An advertisement to the reader. The death of the author, together with the sickness of the overseer of the print, ...". Talbot (1620-80), titular archbishop at Dublin and a Jesuit, trusted by no party, engaged in various plots to gain assistance for Charles II and also in a notable dispute about precedency with Oliver Plunkett.ENGLISH PRE 1701; RELIGION; HISTORY; IRELAND; ENGLAND; RELIGIOUS CONTROVERSY; ; ; ; ; ;