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1677 Étienne Pasquier – Le Catéchisme des Jésuites. Scarce French anti-Jesuit polemic, actually printed at Utrecht under the fictitious “Ville-Franche / Guillaume Grenier” imprint. This copy is especially notable for its manuscript provenance from the Bibliothèque des Augustins d’Amiens, linking a controversial Catholic text to the monastic library that preserved it before the French Revolution. Complete through p. 581 with concluding material present, in an old gilt calf binding with raised bands and red-stained edges. A compelling combination of clandestine printing, religious controversy, monastic provenance, and Revolutionary-era history.