Oct 18, 2016 - Sale 2425

Sale 2425 - Lot 39

Price Realized: $ 228
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
DU MOULIN, PIERRE. The Antibarbarian: or, A Treatise concerning an Unknowne Tongue. As well in the Prayers of Particulars in Private, as in the Publique Liturgie. Wherein also are exhibited the Principall Clauses of the Masse, which would offend the People, if they understood them. [22] (of [24]), 281, [3] (of [7]) pages; lacks initial blank and 2 (of 3) blanks at end. 12mo, 145x86 mm, contemporary limp vellum, book block partly loose in binding, gatherings stitched close to text; light dampstaining in upper portion of contents at beginning, title soiled, small piece torn from blank outer margin of a few leaves toward end. Early signature of John Clarkson inside front cover. London: George Miller for George Edwards, 1630

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first edition in english of a polemic against the use of Latin in the Mass. STC 7311; ESTC S126307.