1688 Popish Policies & Practices | Catholic Gunpowder Treason Huguenot France

1688 Popish Policies & Practices | Catholic Gunpowder Treason Huguenot France

“Popish Policies and Practices” is a rare, 1674 compilation of anti-Catholic writings shaped together to support the constant suffering of Protestants under Catholic authority. Collected by Jacques-Auguste de Thou, or Thaunus, this work was intended to warn English Protestants about the dangers posed by the Catholic Church, particularly the ‘Popish’ plots. De Thou explores the specifics of the Gunpowder Treason and Plot, noting the heavy oppression of the Catholics.

This 1674 first edition was published in London and contains each of the separate sections.

Item number: #28584

Price: $995

THOU, Jacques-Auguste de

Popish policies and practices represented in the histories of the Parisian massacre, gun-power treason

London: printed for John Leigh, 1674. First edition.

Details:

• Collation:
  • History of the Massacres of the Protestants – [6], 65, [1]
    • Wanting last leaf of introduction
  • History of the Powder Plot – [2], 24
  • Discourse Concerning the Original of the Powder-Plot – [8], 196 (i.e., 194)
  • Each part includes separate title page
• References: Wing T 3235
• Provenance: Armorial bookplate – Merthyr Guest
  • Includes the coat of arms of Viscount Wimborne and Baron Ebury. This bookplate likely belonged to a descendant of Ivor Churchill Guest, 1st Viscount Wimborne, KP, PC (1873–1939), a British politician, first cousin of Winston Churchill, and one of the last Lords Lieutenant of Ireland, serving in that position at the time of the Easter Rising; and Guest’s wife, the Honorable Alice Grosvenor (1880–1948), daughter of Robert Grosvenor, 2nd Baron Ebury. The family may have had an interest in the Gunpowder Plot, as Guest was first raised to the peerage as Lord Ashby St Ledgers in 1910 and acquired the manor house of Ashby St. Ledgers, the site where the Gunpowder Plot was planned. Motto: NEC TEMERE NEC TIMIDE
• Language: English
• Binding: Leather, tight and secure
• Size: ~7.75in X 6in (19.5cm x 15cm)
• Very rare and desirable with auction records and price comparisons at upwards of $2,000

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