Oct 21, 2014 - Sale 2362

Sale 2362 - Lot 99

Price Realized: $ 292
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
[PALLAVICINO, FERRANTE.] Il Divortio Celeste, cagionato dalle Dissolutezze della Sposa Romana, & consacrato alla Simplicità de' Scropolosi Christiani. Woodcut vignette on title. 196 pages. 12mo, 128x75 mm, contemporary limp vellum backed with gilt-tooled calf, rear joint cracked at top; occasional marginal soiling and light foxing, bookseller's pencil note on front pastedown, front free endpaper lacking. Villafranca [i. e., Geneva?], 1643

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first edition of an anti-clerical satire "in which Christ is so appalled by the depravities of his bride, the Church . . . that he decides not only to divorce the Catholic Church but never to marry another" (OCIL).