Angers, Antoine Hernaut, 1610
Recherche et Advis sur le corps de S. Iaques le Maieur. A l’occasion d’un Oratoire tres antien du mesme Sainct qui est en l’eglise de St maurille d’Angers.
Extremely rare first and sole edition of this work of polemical antiquarianism, seeking to prove that the remains of St. James the Apostle were not buried at Santiago de Compostella, as Europe’s most pious pilgrims had believed since the 9th century, but in the vaults of the chapel of St..... More