WORLDWIDE CATHOLICA
WORLDWIDE CATHOLICA
Canisius' Catechism of the
Youngest Children 
Canisius, Petrus, Saint. Institutiones christianae pietatis. Seu parvus catechismus catholicorum. Coloniae : Apud Maternum Cholinum, 1571. 12mo (13.5 cm; 5.25"). [16] ff., 51, [1] pp., [36] ff.
Click the interior images for enlargements. Offered here is an early printing of the version for the youngest students. The title-page and calendar are printed in red and black, and a few headlines in the early section are also in red.
Uncommon. OCLC locates only this now deaccessioned copy in the U.S., and one copy in Europe. Index Aureliensis fails to list this edition at all.
• Not in Index Aurel.; not in Adams. Recent ebony-brown calf old style: Round spine with raised bands, accented in gilt and with blind-tooled devices in compartments; single blind rules extending onto covers from each band to terminate in trefoils, and covers framed in blind double fillets. Author's name and date of printing in gilt on spine. Early underscoring and some minimal marginalia in red ink in a 16th-century hand; ownership note of same era on title-page. Some age-spotting and other light discoloration, not serious. 
For an early children's book, a very, very nice copy. (24855)
Protestant Refutation of Baronius Casaubon, Isaac. Isaaci Casauboni De rebus sacris & ecclesiasticis exercitationes XVI ... Acceßit versio Latina earum sententiarum & dictionum Gracarum, quarum interpretatio ab authore in prima editione certo consilio fuit praetermissa. Francofurti: Curantib. Ruland. typis Ioan. Bring, 1615. 4to (24.7 cm, 9.75"). [72], 552, [24] pp.
Click the images for enlargements. The title-page appears within a very fine copper-engraved architectural and allegorical frame. This copy bears
interesting evidence of early readership, with inked marginalia in a very neat hand and underlining in both black and red.
Binding: Contemporary alum-tawed pigskin, covers elaborately tooled and embossed in blind with resulting concentric compartments (one roll being pictorial representations of the virtues).
• Brunet 21364; VD17 12:116615R. Binding with some portions darkenedor rubbed, spine leather with numerous small cracks, clasps now absent; front hinge (inside) repaired, and binding strong. Title-page and first dedication page each with reasonably unobtrusive institutional pressure-stamp. Pages age-toned, with annotations as above. 
A solid, engaging copy. (26927)
The Year in
Four Vols. & Beautiful Bindings Catholic Church. Liturgy & ritual. Breviaries. Breviarium romanum ex decreto sacrosancti Concilii tridentini restitutum S. Pii V. pontificis maximi iussu editum, Clementis VIII. ac Urbani VIII. auctoritate recognitum, cum officiis sanctorum novissimis usque ad SS. D.N. Pium VI, pro recitantium commoditate diligenter dispositis. [Romae]: A. Galler , 1781. 8vo (18 cm, 7.1"). 4 vols. I: [20], 632, cclxxxviii, 19, [1] pp.; illus. II: [18], 646, ccliv, 21, [1] pp.; 1 plt. III: [54], 566, cclxxvi, 26 pp.; 1 plt. IV: [20], 608, cclxx, 15, [1] pp.; illus.
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• Not in Weale & Bohatta. Bindings as above, edges and extremities rubbed, spine leather with tiny cracks, one spine head chipped, one joint starting. Ex-library with bookplates, rubber-stamp on lower edges of pages of the closed volumes. One volume with text block separating from spine and sewing loosening; this with the most leather rubbed away and the darkest instances of the usually-light waterstaining and spots of foxing seen occasionally throughout. Endpapers bear early inked ownership inscriptions and annotations. 
An elegant quartet. (12406)
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The Armenian Rite Englished & IllustratedCatholic Church. Armenian Rite. The Armenian liturgy translated into English. Venice: Pr. at the Armenian Monastery of St. Lazarus, 1862. 8vo (22 cm, 8.6"). 70, [2 (blank)] pp.; 8 plts.
• Publisher’s printed paper wrappers, detached and darkened, front wrapper with tear from inner margin, paper split and chipped along spine, front wrapper with paper shelving label. Title-page with institutional stamp (no other markings). A few plates with very light spots of foxing. Very interesting!
Moretus Pontificale — Handsome Folio Catholic Church. Liturgy and ritual. Pontifical. Pontificale Romanum Clementis VIII. Pont. Max. iussu restitutum atque editum. Nunc primùm Typis Plantinianis emendatiùs recusum. Antverpiae: Ex officina Plantiniana, apud Balthasarem Moretum, & viduam Ioannis Moreti, & Io. Meursium, 1627.
Folio (34 cm, 13.4"). [4] ff., 512 pp., [2] ff.
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Uncut Bifolium Catholic Church. Liturgy & ritual. [drop-title] Die XXVII. augusti. In festo Sancti Josephi Calasanctii a Matre Dei. Scolarum piarum fundatoris, duplex. [Mexico City: 1790–1800]. Folio. [1] f.
This is handsomely printed!
• Not in Medina, Mexico; not in González de Cossío, Cien; not in González de Cossío, 510. Folded once and never bound. Crisp. (24584)
Uncut Copy Catholic church. Liturgy & ritual. Masses. [drop-title] Die XVIII. martii. In festo S. Braulii episcopi caesar-augustani, et confessoris. Duplex. [Mexico: no publisher/printer, ca. 1750]. 4to (21.5 cm; 8.5"). [4] ff.
• Not in Medina, Mexico. Folded twice but never bound. Uncut. (24565)
HandsomeDecretals
Catholic Church.
Pope, 1294–1303 (Bonifacius VIII). Liber sextvs decretalivm
d. Bonifacii papae VIII. Clementis papae V. constitvtiones. Extravagantes tùm
viginti d. Ioannis papae XXII. tùm communes. Haec omnia cvm svis glossis
svae integritati restitvta, et ad exemplar romanvm diligenter recognita. Venetiis:
Sub signo Aquilae renovantis, 1604. Folio (41.6 cm, 16.375"). *4A–Z8Aa–Ff8Gg6(-Gg6,
blank) 2A–2M8 3A–3M8
2Nn4(-2Nn4, blank)*8**4;
[4] ff., 948, 384, 396 numb. col., [12] ff., lacking a blank. 
In this edition the legal text is surrounded by commentary, to which supplementary
side notes have been added. It is printed with an ornate, very large woodcut
printer's device on the title-page, and historiated woodcut initials.
• On Boniface, see: New Catholic Encyclopedia, II, 671–73. Half vellum over green paper with a brown leatherette title label. Title-page has a tear from the base of the page into the imprint information, repaired on the verso with paper. Inked marginalia in one place, fol. *2r. Occasional spots of foxing and staining, most noticeably on the title-page and first few leaves.
Mid-Fourteenth Century
Bifolium Catholic Church. Liturgy & Ritual. Breviary. Manuscript on vellum, in Latin. “In illo tempore dixit Iesus discipulis suis Auditis quia dictum est: “Diliges proximum tuum et odio habebis inimicum tuum.” Germany: ca. 1360. Small 8vo (12.5 x 17.5 cm; 7"x 10"; for the total bifolium). [1] ff.
Click the image for an enlargement.• Very good condtion, in a single-ply mat. (24660)
YES:
Your Majesty May Tax the Clergy
Catholic Church. Pope, 1724–30 (Benedictus XIII). [drop
title] A tergo. Charissimo in Christo filio nostro Philippo, Hispaniarum Regi
Catholico. Intus. Benedictus Papa XIII. [Matritii, 1728]. Folio (28.3 cm, 11.375").
4 ff. 
This copy is notarized, i.e., authenticated, sealed, and signed, "In Madrid, a true copy, Manuel St. Martin, Apostolic notary." No copies were found on OCLC or RLIN, or in NUC Pre-1956.
• Not in Palau. On Benedict XIII, see New Catholic Encyclopedia, II, 276-77. Removed from a nonce volume. Paper generally clean and crisp with but a few spots of soiling; closed tear from bottom margin into the last two lines of text, without loss of letters. Inked paraph on lower inner corners, and inked notation on upper outer corner of first page.
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