CHINA. - NOËL (Alexandre). Apology of the... - Lot 21 - Giquello

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CHINA. - NOËL (Alexandre). Apology of the... - Lot 21 - Giquello
CHINA. - NOËL (Alexandre). Apology of the Dominican missionaries of China. Or Response to the book of the Jesuit Father Le Tellier, entitled Défense des Nouveaux Chrétiens. Cologne, Héritiers de Corneille d'Egmond, 1700. 2 volumes in-12 speckled basane, spine decorated, edges speckled with red (Binding of the time). Cordier, Sinica, col. 877. This work relates to the "quarrel of the rites", a religious and philosophical debate which developed in the 17th and 18th centuries between Catholic missionaries to know if it was appropriate to tolerate or to forbid the newly converted Chinese any participation in the traditional Chinese rites. Epidermures on the boards and spine, defects on the headpieces.
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