Dictionarium Casuum Conscientiae, Seu Praecipuarum Difficultatum Circa Moralem, Ac Disciplinam Ecclesiasticam Decisiones, E Scripturis, Conciliis, Pontificum Decretalibus, Patribus, Necnon Celeberrimis Theologis, & Canonum Peritis Depromptae (2 Volume Set
Apud Antonium Bortoli, 1738. First Edition. Leather Binding. Folio - over 12" - 15" Tall (small thin). Very Good / No Jacket. Item #L062389
Slight scuffing and rubbing to covers (leather; chiefly at foredges); slight bumping to extremities (chiefly corners); slight cracking to lower spine edge of upper cover of volume 2 (with slight chipping); slight internal wrinkling, browning and/or foxing (chiefly to preliminary leaves and edges). [ca. 700] pages per volume. Title on spines: Pontas Dictionar Cas. Cons. Text in Latin. Final 2 volumes of the Latin translation (translator unidentified within) of the original French language recension of canon law with regard to 'cases of conscience' (pace James Benjamin Blish); first published in Paris in 1730 (in 3 volumes). BMC, volume 20, page 660, column 777. 2 volumes (of 3; 'E-O' and 'P-Z', respectively; with index at rear of volume 3), bound in full dark brown calf, gilt-stamped and decorated spines with raised bands, covers ruled blind and with gilt-stamped crest in middle, plain endpapers, all edges stained red. Unascertained provenance (gilt-stamped crest on covers has animal motifs, including an apparent stag and hare, surrounding a castle, with the motto 'Non est mortale quo dopto'); still a very desirable set.Few Engraved Decorations (title Pages & headpieces).
Price: $400.00