71 - RUBIO (Antonio). Nine Books of Catholic Assertions Against the Most Pesteful Errors of Erasmus of Rotterdam, Intended to Help Catholics Counter the Accursed Lutheran Sect... Salamanca, Juan Canova, 1568. In-4, marbled calfskin, double blind-stamped raised bands, spine decorated with blind-stamped raised bands extending onto the covers, red title label, red edges (18th-century binding).

RUBIO (Antonio). Nine Books of Catholic Assertions Against the Most Pesteful Errors of Erasmus of Rotterdam, Intended to Help Catholics Counter the Accursed Lutheran Sect... Salamanca, Juan Canova, 1568. In-4, marbled calfskin, double blind-stamped raised bands, spine decorated with blind-stamped raised bands extending onto the covers, red title label, red edges (18th-century binding). First edition of this extremely rare anti-Erasmian polemical treatise composed by a Franciscan theologian teaching at Salamanca. Printed in two columns; the title page is adorned with the coat of arms of Spain; opposite the epistle to King Philip of Spain, a lovely half-page woodcut depicting Saint Francis of Assisi receiving the stigmata; printer’s mark on the verso of the last leaf. Only one copy of this edition is listed in the CCFr (Fréjus Municipal Library). Wet stamp of a religious institution on the title page. Some quires are foxed; slight waterstains on several quires; traces of worm damage. Spine restored.