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xxxii + 676 + [iii] pp., contains an extensive index, 26cm., text clean and bright, few pages are somewhat browned, contemporary full-leather binding (gilt title and decorations at spine, corners bit bumped, front joint fragile), red edges, text in Latin, good condition, [Molanus Joannes, 1533-1585, famous Contra-Reformation theologian, professor of Theology and Rector of the Louvain University (Belgium). This work concerns a first edition annotated by Paquot, based on the 1594-edition which was on itself a revised and enlarged edition of the very first edition of 1570: "De picturis et imaginibus sacris liber unus, tractans de vitandis circa eas abusibus et de earundem significationibus". In this work Molanus deals with the proper content of religious images, based on the decrees of the Council of Trent (1563). His views and instructions were widely spread and enforced in the Catholic world and taken into account by artists], weight: 1.7kg., S108277