DE SAINT RENÉ, Théodoric. Lot n° 298

Justification of the Roman Church on the Reordination of Episcopal English: or answer to the dissertation and defence of the dissertation on the validity of English Ordinations. Paris, Paulus-du-Mesnil, 1728. 2 vols in-12. Contemporary blond calf, coats of arms in the centre of the boards, spine ribbed and decorated, red morocco title and gilt edges. The text ends with a Speech delivered in the Upper House of Parliament, against the supremacy that one wanted to give to Queen Elizabeth, in the first year of her reign, by Nicolas Heath Lord Chancellor of England, in bilingual version. >Unidentified arms, to be compared with the Rohan Soubise family. Worm work at the bottom of the lower jaw of volume I, less pronounced at the jaw of volume II, slight spotting to the binding.