...Ne apice quidem læfa ex Præsumptuosa Joannis Henrici Heideggeri Tigurini Anatome Historico-Theologicâ, Authore Reverenduissimo et Illustrissimo S.R.I. Principe, Ac Domino, Domino Augustino Exempti Monasterij Einsidlensis, Ordinis S. Benedicti Abbate &c SS. Theologiæ Doctore &c. Ac Helveto-Benedictinæ Congegationis Visitatore (Einsiedeln: Joseph Reymann, 1684), five volumes, small folio (14.25 x 8.5 in.), vellum boards, gilt morocco title plates on spine with pronounced raised bands, the title pages of the first four books are preceded by Veritas Triumphat, a copperplate engraving by Georg Andreas Wolfgang. Each volume is inscribed on the front free endpaper as a Christmas 1899 gift to William Gray Brooks from his mother.

Augustine Reding, a powerful Benedictine and prolific writer, here defends the Council of Trent in its judgement against Swiss reform theologian Johann Heinrich Heidegger.

Appropriate age toning with light-to-moderate foxing; tight binding

$400 - 800