Publisher: Amsterdam: [s.n.], 1766.

Edition: Presumed first edition

Binding: Contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine with floral tooling, red morocco title label, red edges. Some rubbing and loss at head of spine; corners worn but binding tight and unrestored.

Description: A rare Amsterdam imprint, issued anonymously in 1766, probing one of the most dangerous questions in 18th-century canon law: how far could the Church’s power to excommunicate, suspend, or interdict extend? Was it confined to individuals, or could entire families, towns, or nations be cast under spiritual banishment?

Condition: Very Good — binding rubbed with wear at extremities, loss at head of spine, but text block clean, bright, and unsophisticated.

Annotation: More than a treatise, this volume is a bold intervention in the Enlightenment struggle with ecclesiastical power. Its anonymous voice speaks directly to the dangers of challenging the Church in print, making it an artifact of censorship as much as of canon law. A work that belongs in any serious collection on Church and Enlightenment, censorship, or the history of free thought.

Item #100

Price: $800.00