Catalogus nr 5.indd - Den Hertog Bolland Rare Books

DAILLÉ, Jean (1594-1670). De imaginibus libri IV. Leiden, Bonaventura Elzevier and AbrahamElzevier, 1642. 8vo. (16) 552 (3) pp. Contemporary vellum. 350,-[ 9 ]First and only Latin edition of Daillé’s important treatise on the use and worship of images. Daillé, a FrenchProtestant theologian, was successively private chaplain to the Huguenot leader Philippe Duplessis-Mornay andpastor at Saumur and Charenton in Paris. His treatise above, which is divided into four books, was first publishedin French in 1641. For decades it remained unanswered by Roman Catholic writers. The most thoughtful responsecame from Noël Alexandre (1639-1724), a French Dominican, who inserted a dissertation in his twenty-six-volumeecclesiastical history (1676-1686) in which he attempted to negate Daillé’s arguments. - Centre of upper pastedowncut out (presumably to remove a bookplate) and first endpaper missing.Willems 536.