Conspiration

1617 · 9588 — Moguntiae Mainz: Apud Ioannem Volmar sumptibus Bernardi Gualtheri 1617. First edition. 8vo 4 190pp. Modern fine binding of full pigskin with black lettering and design and gilt accents marbled endpapers page edges speckled red. Inner margins tight in several places but no loss of text. A neat and clean copy internally in attractive binding. <br /> <br /> Rare 1617 debate on the alleged hidden practices of the Jesuit order featuring Jesuit economist Adam Contzen 1571-1635 and issued at Mainz on the eve of the Thirty Years’ War. This publication is part of the early “secret Jesuit†narrative and a response to the controversy caused by the publication of Monita secreta Societatis Jesu a few years prior.  These arguments and counterarguments would reverberate for centuries in Jesuit conspiracy literature representing one of the earliest efforts to cast the order as a clandestine “secret society.â€. Apud Ioannem Volmar, sumptibus Bernardi Gualtheri unknown