Recherche et Advis sur le corps de S. Iaques le Maieur. A l’occasion d’un Oratoire tres antien du mesme Sainct qui est en l’eglise de St maurille d’Angers

by Claude Menard

Inquire · Offered by Martayan Lan · No longer available

8vo. 14 ff including engraved title page by Thomas de Leu, 124 pp. Bound in contemporary vellum, title page in fine impression and text very crisply printed, an excellent copy. Extremely rare first and sole edition of this work of polemical antiquarianism, seeking to prove that the remains of St. James the Apostle were not buried at Santiago de Compostella, as Europe’s most pious pilgrims had believed

• Binding: Leather

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