Extraits des assertions dangereuses et pernicieuses en tout genre que les soi-disans Jésuites....
Paris: Pierre-Guillaume Simon, 1762.
First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Near Fine Condition. Item #049252
Full mottled calf, worn a bit at corners with some surface wear, but an attractive copy in a sound binding with marbled endpapers. Scattered minor foxing and browning, a bit heavier at the end. 542, (1) pp
The quarto version, there was a contemporaneously published octavo in 3 volumes. An exhaustive list of the malfeasance of the Jesuits - it led just two years later to the order being suppressed. The extraits are broken up into sections with lists of perpetrators and descriptions of acts, many of them related to englighenment philosophy: probalisme, péché philosophique, idolatrie Chinoise, prevarication de juges, compensation occulte, homicide, parricide, regicide, etc. Size: Quarto (4to). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Religion & Theology; Inventory No: 049252.
Price: $300.00