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JESUIT BUTTER SELLER SATIRE | MARIE DE GOURNAY ATTACKED --- 29, [3]; 15, [1] p. | 8vo | A-D^4; A-B^4 | 169 x 104 mm --- Both are among several editions published in 1610, each boasting a Dutch translation too, all part of a Protestant-Jesuit pamphlet war that accelerated after the 1610 assassination of Henri IV. Our Le fleau is not the 1610 Paris Rousselet edition, nor the 1610 Amsterdam Colin edition, nor the 1610 edition "after the Paris copy" (this also included in the 1611 Recueil de plusieurs escrits publiez). We wonder if it might match OCLC 1055688964, which lacks a title page, and/or the 15-page edition at the Cantonal and University Library of Lausanne, which also seems to lack a title. ¶ Dressed up as a satirical thank-you note from the guild of Paris butter sellers, the anti-Jesuit Le remerciment attacks Louis de Montgommery and his Le fleau, which itself had attacked the anonymous Anti-Cotton, "the most forceful of the anti-Jesuitical pamphlets" (Rothrock). While Henri… Read More

ONE OF JUST TWO EARLY MAINZ DONATI RECORDED IN PRIVATE HANDS ¶ PROBABLY THE EARLIEST OFFERED IN ALMOST A CENTURY ¶ POSSIBLY PUBLISHED BEFORE THE GUTENBERG BIBLE --- CCCXX, [8] leaves | 8vo | a-z^8 [us]^8 [con]^8 [rum]^8 A-P^8 | 175 x 113 mm --- A fantastically rare example of the Ars Minor of Aelius Donatus from the earliest years of Mainz printing, being fragments of the ninth leaf of a 33-line edition printed on parchment with the type of the Gutenberg Bible. Sewn as a guard into the middle of the first gathering, between a4 and a5, is a single strip roughly two lines in height; and a second guard sewn in between P4 and P5—the first and last gatherings were commonly so guarded, as they bore the most stress during operation—this one bearing perhaps a little more than a single line of Donatus. Visible between sewing stations at the edges of the spine are eight trapezoidal pieces, representing two discrete halves of the spine's comb lining—one running up the left side, another… Read More