Montor (Artaud de): The Lives and Times of the Popes, New York, The Catholic Publication Society of America, [1911], 10 vols., 8vo, edition deluxe, number 199 of 1000 copies, each vol. with an a.l.s. or l.s. from a Pope or a Cardinal tipped-in, plates, contemporary crimson morocco, ruled and tooled in gilt, upper covers blocked with a centrepiece of crossed papal keys and bishop's crozier, purple morocco doublures, decorated in gilt, free endpapers lined with crimson watered silk (occasional very light scuff marks), t.e.g. (10)

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1. Gregory XIII (Pope 1572-1585), 1p. l.s. as Pope, 'P.B.U.' [Papa Buoncompagni Ugo], Rome, 1582.
2. Sixtus V (Pope 1585-1590), 1p. n.s. as Pope 'Fiat ut Petit (Be it as he asks), F.' across a request from Ferdinandus Cepus of the Monastery of St.Anastasius to be allowed to consecrate certain relics, Rome, 1589.
3. Clement XII (Pope 1730-1740), 1p. l.s. as Cardinal, Rome, 1714.
4. Benedict XIV (Pope 1740-1758), 1p. l.s. as Cardinal, Bologna, 1734. 5. Clement XIII (Pope 1758-69), 1p. l.s. as Cardinal, Rome, 1737.
6. Leo XII (Pope 1823-29), 2pp. l.s. as Cardinal, Spoleto, 1819.
7. Pius VIII (Pope 1829-30), 1p. a.l.s. as Cardinal, Cesena, 1821.
8. Pius IX (Pope 1846-78), 1p. a.l.s. as Archbishop, 1828.
9. Cardinal John Newman, 2pp. a.l.s. addressed to Cardinal Manning, Oratory, Birmingham, 1857.
10. Cardinal James Gibbons, 1p. a.l.s., Baltimore, 1888.

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