Histoire Du Baianisme Ou De L'Heresie De Michel Baius

Douay, Jacques-François Willerval, 1731 ; 3 parts in one 4to volume (252x198mm), 6 unnumbered leaves, 450 pp., 1 unnumbered leaf, 76 pp., 1 unnumbered leaf, 82 pp., 4 unnumbered leaves.. Contemporary full calf, decorated raised bands spine, orange title label, triple blind fillets framing the boards, gilt roll on the board edges and headcaps, porphyry-stained edges. Abrasions on the boards, rubbing at the hinges, one 4-page gathering misplaced: 4 leaves of the Eclarcissement sur l'Histoire du Baianisme (p.9 - 16) bound with the Histoire du Baianisme (between pages 448 and 449), but the book is quite complete. First edition, in French and Latin, of this history of Baianism, the doctrine developed by Michel de Bay, known as Baïus (1513-1589), a theologian of the University of Louvain, condemned as heresy by Pius IV in 1567. A fine copy.