[Du Cambout de Pontchateau, Sebastien-Joseph]. La Morale Pratique des Jesuites, Second Volume. Divisé en sept Parties. Oú l’on represente leur conduite dans la Chine, dans le Japon, dans l’Amerique, & dans l’Ethyopie. Le tout tiré de livers trés de livres-autorisez, ou de pieces trés-authetiques. [Place & publisher not identified.]: 1682. [11696]
Full leather, very worn with cracked outer joints, boards well-attached with strong end paper hinges, raised bands with gilt-decorated panels, red leather title label, old paper number label at top of spine, backstrip chipped with loss. 15 x 9.5 cm (5 6/8 x 3 5/8 inches), marbled end papers; round institutional emboss stamp on the tp and one leaf of text. [i-viii], 9-416, [14] pages. The French text is in good condition, collated and complete. Full-page engraved plate, “Adam Schall Iesuite, Mandarin Du Premier Ordre"; folding plate 36 x 15 cm “Marche du P. Martinius Jesuite Mandarin de Premier Ordre”, with the bearded Jesuit held aloft in a procession of Chinese followers. Good. Hardcover.
An attack on the Jesuit order as a power-hungry enemy of the Christian religion. This second part is divided into 7 chapters: 1. Theatro Jesuitico, 2. Louis Sotelo, 3. Memorial P. Diego Collado, 4. Extrait de la Relation du Japon par M. Tavernier, 5. Lettre Dom Jean de Palafox, 6. Remarques, 7. Extrait du livre des missions Apostoliques de M. Leveque d'Heliopolis.
Sebastien-Joseph du Cambout de Pontchateau (1634-1690), French Jansenist theologian, abbot of three abbeys is Brittany. He left the beginnings of a brilliant ecclesiastical career in 1662 for a life of solitude, remained committed to the Jansenist cause ever after Church of Rome condemned the theses of Cornelius Jansen in 1653, and developed a vast correspondence in defense of those positions. He was the author of the first two volumes of La Morale Pratique des Jesuites, a polemical thrust at the morals & intrigues of the Jesuits.
