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IRELAND - IRISH LANGUAGE MOLLOY (FRANCIS) [FROINSIAS Ó MAOLMUAIDH] Lucerna fidelium...,FIRST EDITION, Rome, 1676
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IRELAND - IRISH LANGUAGE
MOLLOY (FRANCIS) [FROINSIAS Ó MAOLMUAIDH] Lucerna fidelium, seu fasciculus decerptus... de doctrina christiana: divisus in tres partes, FIRST EDITION, title in roman letter, text in Irish, woodcut device on verso of dedication, some spotting and toning, later vellum, ink lettered on spine, soiled, 8vo, Rome, Sacra Congregatio de Propaganda Fide, 1676
Footnotes
FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST BOOK IN IRISH PUBLISHED BY THE PROPAGANDA PRESS, written by the Franciscan Francis Molloy (c.1606-1677).
Provenance: Sir John Leslie, Glaslough House, bookplate.