1650 Caussin Holy Court Portraits Charlemagne Mary Queen of Scots Crusades RARE

1650 Caussin Holy Court Portraits Charlemagne Mary Queen of Scots Crusades RARE

“They say that love and tears are learned without any teacher.”

― Nicolas Caussin

Nicolas Caussin was a 17^th-century French Jesuit most-known for his treatise “The Holy Court”. This book was a Christian account of the four principal human passions – love, desire, anger, and envy. Caussin wrote this work as an instructional manual intended to teach the proper means of controlling these emotions.

While this work is outwardly known as a teaching tool, it also includes accounts of historical significance. According to Lowndes,

“In this work will be found a life of Mary Queen of Scots”

Not only does this book discuss the history of English royalty, but Caussin covers the crusades, New Testament history, and early Christianity in the Roman Middle Ages.

Translated by Sir Thomas Hawkins, this 1650 English edition is illustrated with 24 impressive engraved portraits of important historical figures such as Constantine, Charlemagne, Clotilda, Pulcheria, Martinus, and many others.

Item number: #10970

Price: $950

CAUSSIN, Nicolas

The holy court in five tomes: the first, treating of motives, which should excite men of qualitie to Christian perfection. The second, of the prelate, souldier, states-man, and ladie. The third, of maxims of Christianitie against prophanesse, divided into three parts, viz. divinitie, government of this life, & state of the other world. The fourth, containing the command of reason over the passions. The fifth, now first published in English, and much augemented according to the last edition of the authour; containing the lives of the most famous and illustrious courtiers; taken out of the Old and New Testament, and other modern authours

London: Printed by William Bentley, and are to be sold by John Williams, in Pauls Church-yard, 1650.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • Tomes I – III
    • [20], 522, [8]
    • 10 in-text engraved portraits + frontispiece
  • Tomes IV-V
    • [10], 319, [1]
    • 14 in-text engraved portraits
  • ‘The Angel of Peace’
    • [2], 13, [7]
  • References: Wing C 1547
  • Language: English
  • Binding: Leather; tight & secure
  • Size: ~13.5in X 9in (34.5cm x 22.5cm)

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